Robert Browning

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

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On Discernment:

Only I discern
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.

Two in the Campagna

Some unsuspected isle in the far seas,
Some unsuspected isle in far-off seas.

Pippa Passes

On Geniality:

Genius has somewhat of the infantine;
But of the childish not a touch or taint.

Just for a handful of silver he left us,
Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

The Lost Leader

On Beauty:

If you get simple beauty and nought else,
You get about the best thing God invents.

Fry Lippo Lippi

On God:

That we devote ourselves to God, is seen
In living just as though no God there were.

Paracelsus

Sappho survives, because we sing her songs;
And aeschylus, because we read his plays!

Cleon

On Love:

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity;
These are its sign, and note and character.

On Fault:

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Paracelsus

On Change:

All that is, at all,
Lasts ever. past recall;
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.

Rabbi ben Ezra
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