Robert Browning Quotes

"Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist."

"She had / A heart - how shall I say? - too soon made glad, / Too easily impressed."

"This is a heart the Queen leant on."

"Open my heart and you will see / Graved inside of it, `Italy'."

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"

"Oh, never star / Was lost here, but it rose afar! / Look East, where whole new thousands are! / In Vishnu-land what Avatar?"

"I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tournament. And we played like we wanted it tonight."

"Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain"

"Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape than in effecting entry for light supposed to be without."

"Truth never hurts the teller"

"Lied is a rough phrase; say he fell from truth"

"Stand still, true poet that you are! / I know you; let me try and draw you. / Some night you'll fail us: when afar / You rise, remember one man saw you, / Knew you and named a star!"

"The rain set early in to-night, / The sullen wind was soon awake. / It tore the elm-tops down for spite. / And did its worst to vex the lake."

"The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made"

"O lover of my life, O soldier-saint."

"I have dared and done, for my resting-place is found, The C major of this life: so, now I will try to sleep"

"That he was dead and then restored to life / By a Nazarene physician of his tribe."

"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."

"Oh to love so, be so loved, yet so mistaken!"

"God is seen God In the star, in the stone, in the flesh, in the soul and the clod"