Since when was genius found respectable?
More Quotes from Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
This dog only, waited on,Knowing that when light is gone
Love remains for shining.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fast it sinketh, as a thing
Which its own nature doth precipitate,
While thine doth close above it, mediating
Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our Euripides, the human, With his droppings of warm tears, And his touches of things common Till they rose to touch the spheres.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fire is bright,
Let temple burn, or flax; an equal light
Leaps in the flame from cedar-plank or weed:
And love is fire.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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