A collection of thoughts and quotes by Robert Browning on aspiration, music, inspiration, heaven, solitude, old-age, nature, poetry, determination, truth, strangle, humanity, reflection, love, rebirth, nostalgia, happiness and life.
64 Wonderful Quotes By Robert Browning, The Great English Poet
Robert Browning was a 19th century poet and playwright. His proficiency in dramatic monologue made him one of the most celebrated Victorian poets. He was able to read and write by the age of 5, and composed an entire set of poems when he was 12. His first publication was ‘Pauline’, a series of poems that were criticized for containing a lot of personal information. Owing to the criticism of ‘Pauline’, he vowed to never include personal information in his writings. His book 'Men and Women' talked the relationship between him and the love of his life, Elizabeth. Browning wrote and published dramatic monologues that revolved around ‘painters’, ‘writers’ and ‘mad-men’. ‘Porphyria's Lover’, ‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’ and ‘My Last Duchess’ are some of his distinguished poems. Browning’s work, writings, thoughts, sayings and poems got recognition that he truly deserved when he was in his 60s. His poems, works, thoughts, quotations and writings still attract a large number of readership. Read On the quotes and sayings by this renowned poet.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!
In this world, who can do a thing, will not;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:
Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —
And thus we half-men struggle.
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!
Robert Browning
But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
This world's no blot for us,
Nor blank; it means intensely, and means good:
To find its meaning is my meat and drink.
Robert Browning
What a name! Was it love or praise?
Speech half-asleep or song half-awake?
I must learn Spanish, one of these days,
Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
Just when I seemed about to learn!
Where is the thread now? Off again!
The old trick! Only I discern -
Infinite passion, and the pain
Of finite hearts that yearn.
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph.
Life with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear,
Is just our chance o’ the prize of learning love,
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is.
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.
Robert Browning
Who was a queen and loved a poet once
Humpbacked, a dwarf? ah, women can do that!
Robert Browning
Truth is within ourselves…there is an inmost center in us all..where truth abides in fulness--and to know,rather consists in open out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape
Robert Browning
Womanliness means only motherhood;
All love begins and ends there.
Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more,
One task more declin'd, one more foot-path ontrod,
One more devil's triumph and sorrow for angels,
One wrong more to man, one more insult to God!
Robert Browning
What if all's appearance? Is not outside seeming real as substance inside? Both are facts, so leave me dreaming.
