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You're something between a dream and a miracle.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Life, Dream, Miracle

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Faith, Autumn, Shoes
'Aurora Leigh' (1857) bk. 7, l. 821

Silence is the best response to a fool.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Silence, Fool, Cool Status

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, Valentines Day, Cute Boyfriend
1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, Wedding, Soulmate

Light tomorrow with today!

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Inspirational, Life, Change
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.494, Delphi Classics

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Marriage, Sweet Love, Educational
Sonnets from the Portuguese no. 43 (1850)

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Breathe, Drink, Feels
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.223, Everyman's Library

God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Faith, Song, Real
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.101

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, Anniversary, Romantic
Dormer Creston, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1943). “Andromeda in Wimpole Street: the love story of Robert and Elizabeth Browning told in their letters”

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Adversity, Suffering, True Knowledge

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Wind, Sea, Play

Gaze up at the stars knowing that I see the same sky and wish the same sweet dreams.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Inspirational, Goodbye, Dream

Art is much, but love is more.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Art, Love Is, Art Is
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.490

It was not the apple on the tree but the pair on the ground that caused the trouble in the garden of Eden.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Garden, Eden, Apples

Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Work, Littles
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.471

Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, Romantic, Sweet
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.110

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Poetry, Humanity

What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Creativity, Power, Ideas
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1954). “Elizabeth Barrett to Miss Mitford: the unpublished letters of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford”

The essence of all beauty, I call love.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Essence, Essence Of Beauty
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.179

Whoever lives true life, will love true love.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, Life, Love Life
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.36

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love, Boyfriend, Valentine
1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 43.

My sun sets to raise again.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sun, Raises, Sun Set

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women, Struggle, Sound
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.25, Psychology Press

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Greatness, Men, Clean
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.405

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