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71 Top Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Famous As: English poet of the Victorian era, best known for her 'Sonnets From the Portuguese' and 'Aurora Leigh.
Born On: March 6, 1806
Died On: June 29, 1861
Born In: Kelloe, Durham, England
Died At Age: 55
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a renowned English poet who lived in the Victorian era. She gained a lot of recognition in tehe United States and Britain in her lifetime. Browning started writing poems at the age of six. Her thoughts, writings and poems were collected by her mother and form one of the largest collections of poems by juvenilia by an English writer. In 1838, her first adult collection of poetry was published. She wrote profusely from 1841-1844 and produced some notable works of prose, poetry and translations. He work, thoughts, writings and life revolved around abolition of slavery. She also contributed in reforming the child labour legislation with her works. Her writings, thoughts, poetry and works have inspired and influenced prominent writers. Go through the quotes and sayings by Elizabeth Barrett Browning on beauty, beautiful, silence, comfort, earth, greatness, weakness, faith, desire, rare, painful, equal, genius etc which still has a large readership.
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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You're something between a dream and a miracle.

You're something between a dream and a miracle.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earth's crammed with heaven...
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

Earth's crammed with heaven... But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Earth's crammed with heaven, 
And every common bush afire with God, 
But only he who sees takes off his shoes;
The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.

Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes; The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.

You were made perfectly to be loved and surely I have loved you in the idea of you my whole life long.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love me sweet 
With all thou art 
Feeling, thinking, seeing; 
Love me in the Lightest part, 
Love me in full Being.

Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,—but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Who so loves believes the impossible.

Who so loves believes the impossible.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My sun sets to rise again.

My sun sets to rise again.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

God's gifts put men's best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Light tomorrow with today.

Light tomorrow with today.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
All actual heroes are essential men,
And all men possible heroes.

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Parting is all we know of heaven
And all we need of hell

Parting is all we know of heaven And all we need of hell

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And if God choose 
 I shall but love thee better after death.

And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

What I do, and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I saw, in gradual vision through my tears,
The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years,
Those of my own life, who by turns had flung
A shadow across me.

I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.
Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide,
And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
And yet, because I love thee, I obtain
From that same love this vindicating grace,
To live on still in love, and yet in vain

And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange
And be all to me?

If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything.

You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am yours for everything.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning