Elizabeth Barrett Quotes
+3God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+2Light tomorrow with today!
- Elizabeth Barrett
+2Two human loves make one divine.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1Whoso loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1First time he kiss’d me, he but only kiss’d The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And ever since it grew more clean and white.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1I was betrothed that day; I wore a troth kiss on my lips I could not give away.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1Thy lips which spake wrong counsel, I kiss close.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination… down our earth to rake.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1God’s gifts put man’s best dreams to shame.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1Since when was genius found respectable?
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
- Elizabeth Barrett
+1And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.
- Elizabeth Barrett
0If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love’s sake only.
- Elizabeth Barrett
0You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
- Elizabeth Barrett
0Grief is the price we pay for love.
- Elizabeth Barrett
0He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
- Elizabeth Barrett
0He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
- Elizabeth Barrett
