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Quotations By Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Beauty
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Love
If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except forlove's sake only.
Do not say, I love her for her smile . . . her look . . . her way
Of speaking gently . . . for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day-
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee- and love so wrought,
May be unwrought so.

Love
Whoso loves Believes the impossible.

Pain
World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain.