How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. Elizabeth Barrett Browning More Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning More Quotes From Elizabeth Barrett Browning Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day. Elizabeth Barrett Browning lightmorningnight The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. Elizabeth Barrett Browning larkssoarlittles Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. Elizabeth Barrett Browning anticipationtimememories What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Elizabeth Barrett Browning creativitypowerideas And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest. Elizabeth Barrett Browning incompletenessgreatnessthinking What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? Elizabeth Barrett Browning ascendinglinesart Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers? Elizabeth Barrett Browning childhoodbrotherchildren Whoso loves, believes in the impossible Elizabeth Barrett Browning impossiblelovebelieve I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!" Elizabeth Barrett Browning angelwritingnight New angel mine, unhoped for in the world! Elizabeth Barrett Browning minesangelworld When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins. Elizabeth Barrett Browning horsemendeath Unless you can feel when the song is done Elizabeth Barrett Browning songsweetlife Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen." Elizabeth Barrett Browning eyewinninglove Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. Elizabeth Barrett Browning brightercoloreye We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake. Elizabeth Barrett Browning rakesimaginationearth Love that endures, from life that disappears! Elizabeth Barrett Browning enduredisappear Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get. Elizabeth Barrett Browning work 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 greekhappinessdeath Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun. Elizabeth Barrett Browning starsriversrunning We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts. Elizabeth Barrett Browning warmheart