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 More Quotes by Elizabeth Barrett Browning More Quotes From Elizabeth Barrett Browning Anybody is qualified, according to everybody, for giving opinions upon poetry. It is not so in chemistry and mathematics. Nor is it so, I believe, in whist and the polka. But then these are more serious things. Elizabeth Barrett Browning serious-things giving believe Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all. Elizabeth Barrett Browning this-world work world Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. Elizabeth Barrett Browning ease work men Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal. Elizabeth Barrett Browning eye violet looks Don't get me wrong-painting's all right. But now that we have photography, what's the point? Elizabeth Barrett Browning painting photography As the moths around a taper, Elizabeth Barrett Browning gnats drinking rose How joyously the young sea-mew Elizabeth Barrett Browning dream blue men Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. Elizabeth Barrett Browning voice joy song Books are men of higher stature. Elizabeth Barrett Browning higher men book Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me. Elizabeth Barrett Browning courses seems writing When God helps all the workers for His world, Elizabeth Barrett Browning singers lasts world I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly. Elizabeth Barrett Browning mind mean art Earth may embitter, not remove, Elizabeth Barrett Browning sorrow grief heaven Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world. Elizabeth Barrett Browning dangerous soul world Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule. Elizabeth Barrett Browning gregarious soul You believe Elizabeth Barrett Browning wish men believe We can't separate our humanity from our poetry. Elizabeth Barrett Browning poetry humanity The tyrant should take heed to what he doth, Elizabeth Barrett Browning injustice tyrants use And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it? Elizabeth Barrett Browning being-free money thinking It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure. Elizabeth Barrett Browning hospitality too-much people
