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I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, Write!

I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Angel, Writing, Night
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1870). “Poems of the Intellect and the Affections”, p.112

OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book, Love You, Writing
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.913, Delphi Classics

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book, Writing, Men
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.403

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Writing, Kissing, Romantic Love
1850 Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet 38.

Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Writing, Courses, Seems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.2223, Delphi Classics

Of writing many books there is no end.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Book, Writing, Ends
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1857). “Aurora Leigh”, p.1

You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Writing, One Day, Twenties
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.37, The Floating Press

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