Robert Browning

England
7 May 1812 // 12 Dec 1889
Poet, Playwright

Quotes

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What I aspired to be,
And was not, comforts me.

Rabbi Ben Ezra
What a thing friendship is
World without end.
Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.

Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came
Over my head his arm he flung
Against the world.

Two in the Campagna
God's in his heaven:
All's right with the world.

Pippa Passes
Every joy is gain, and gain is gain, however small.
Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

Paracelsus

That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.

A Death in the Desert
The lie was dead
And damned, and truth stood up instead.

Count Gismond
I count life just a stuff
To try the soul's strength on.

In a Balcony
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