Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, born March 6, 1806, near Durham, Durham, Eng., died June 29, 1861, Florence. British poet. Overcoming ill health and the jealous objections of her tyrannical father, she eloped to Italy with Robert Browning and married him in 1846. Her greatest work, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), is a sequence of love poems written to her husband.
How many desolate creatures on the earth Have learnt the simple dues of fellowship And social comfort, in a hospital.
Women know The way to rear up children (to be just), They know a simple, merry, tender knack Of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, And stringing pretty words that make no sense, And kissing full sense into empty words.
Eve is a twofold mystery.
What's this, Aurora Leigh, You write so of the poets and not laugh? Those virtuous liars, dreamers after dark, Exaggerators of the sun and moon, And soothsayers in a tea-cup? I write so Of the only speakers of essential truth, Opposed to relative, comparative, And temporal truths; . . . The only teachers who instruct mankind, From just a shadow on a charnel-wall.
It is not merely the likeness which is precious . . . but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing . . . the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say . . . that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.
Whoso loves Believes the impossible.
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