Quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

God's in His Heaven - All's right with the world!

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy."

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones.

I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

Two human loves make one divine.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use

Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

May the good God pardon all good men.

But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips.