With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature. 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 light morning night The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars. Elizabeth Barrett Browning larks soar littles Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished. Elizabeth Barrett Browning anticipation time memories What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality? Elizabeth Barrett Browning creativity power ideas And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest. Elizabeth Barrett Browning incompleteness greatness thinking 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 ascending lines art Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers? Elizabeth Barrett Browning childhood brother children Whoso loves, believes in the impossible Elizabeth Barrett Browning impossible love believe I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, "Write!" Elizabeth Barrett Browning angel writing night New angel mine, unhoped for in the world! Elizabeth Barrett Browning mines angel world 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 horse men death Unless you can feel when the song is done Elizabeth Barrett Browning song sweet life Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen." Elizabeth Barrett Browning eye winning love Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do. Elizabeth Barrett Browning brighter color eye We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake. Elizabeth Barrett Browning rakes imagination earth Love that endures, from life that disappears! Elizabeth Barrett Browning endure disappear 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 greek happiness death 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 stars rivers running We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts. Elizabeth Barrett Browning warm heart