Robert Browning

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

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The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

Cleon

On Sadness:

How sad and bad and mad it was
But then, how it was sweet!

Confessions

On Objective:

A man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?

On Woman:

There's a woman like a dewdrop, she's so purer than the purest.

A Blot in the 'Scutcheon

On Fight:

When the fight begins within himself,
A man 's worth something.

Men and Women. Bishop Blougram's Apology

On Intention:

'T is not what man does which exalts him, but what man would do.

A Death in the Desert

On Intention:

'Tis not what a man does which exalts him, but what man would do!

Saul

On Time:

There's a new tribunal now,
Higher than God's the educated man's!

The Ring and the Book

On Paradise:

Lose who may I still can say,
Those who win heaven, blest are they!

One Way of Love

On Poet:

God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.

Paracelsus
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