Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love the better after death.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The heart doth recognize thee, Alone, alone! The heart doth smell the sweet, Doth view the fair, doth judge thee most complete, —-Though seeing now those changes that disguise thee.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself sublimely helpless and impotent had done living I thought Was ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the tombstones, that there seemed no room for tears.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The wisest word man reaches is the humblest he can speak.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The year's at the Spring And day's at the morn Morning's at seven The hillside's dew-pearled The lark's on the wing The snail's on the thorn: God's in his Heaven - All's right with the world!

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

True knowledge comes only through suffering.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We get no good by being ungenerous, even to a book, and calculating profits...so much help by so much reading. It is rather when we gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth--'TIS then we get the right good from the book.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning