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• There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world
  oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!...
• And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- A Vision of Poe...
• Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- A Vision of Poets, Conclusio...
• Since when was genius found respectable? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness, Round our restlessness His rest.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- Rhyme of the Duche...
• But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- Bianca among the Nightingales, xii...
• Who so loves believes the impossible. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- Aurora Leigh, Book ii...
• By thunders of white silence.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- Hiram Powers's Greek Slave...