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Robert Browning: Quotes
- Age and Aging
Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made. - Ambition
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for? - Animals
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture! - Beauty
If you get simple beauty and nought else,
You get about the best thing God invents. - Choice
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good
Compensate bad in man, absolve him so:
Life's business being just the terrible choice. - Death
Even throughout life, 'tis death that makes life live,
Gives it whatever the significance.
: The Ring and the Book - Discontent
Does he paint? he fain would write a poem,—
Does he write?—he fain would paint a picture. - Doubt and Skepticism
All we have gained then by our unbelief
Is a life of doubt diversified by faith,
For one of faith diversified by doubt:
We called the chess-board white,—we call it black. - England and the English
Oh, to be in England
Now that April's there. - Flowers and Trees
Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose.
: Sordello - God
God is seen God
In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod. - Ignorance and Stupidity
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
- Kissing
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
- Leisure
When a man's busy, why leisure
Strikes him as wonderful pleasure:
'Faith, and at leisure once is he?
Straightway he wants to be busy. - Love
God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures
Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,
One to show a woman when he loves her! - Progress
Progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. - Seasons
The year's at the spring
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearled;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven—
All's right with the world!
: Pippa Passes - Simplicity
Less is more.