Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure. Robert Browning More Quotes by Robert Browning More Quotes From Robert Browning One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it. Robert Browning doe may art Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters. Robert Browning rocks joy water Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Robert Browning progress hope men All service is the same with God. Robert Browning Never the time and the place Robert Browning together love life I think, am sure, a brother's love exceeds Robert Browning brother life thinking I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know. Robert Browning gains want might The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its best to vex the lake: I listened with heart fit to break. When glided in Porphyria; straight She shut the cold out and the storm, And kneeled and made the cheerless grate Blaze up and all the cottage warm. Robert Browning lakes rain heart Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn. Robert Browning passion pain heart Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away. Robert Browning poverty littles world Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not. Robert Browning succeed failure lows A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. Robert Browning age dream birthday You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls. Robert Browning romantic-love kissing girl That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! Robert Browning wise song thinking How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning heart men life Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. Robert Browning progress hope men Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? Robert Browning deeds-done success men But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past? Robert Browning life lying past What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. Robert Browning time men years What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth — Compared with love, found, gained, and kept? Robert Browning wedding-anniversary found art