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• Italy, my Italy! Queen Mary's saying serves for me (When fortune's malice Lost her Calais)
  "Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it 'Italy....
• Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose. -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Sordello, Book vi
• That 's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Home-Thoughts from Abroad, ii...
• Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came, xxxiii...
• We shall march prospering,--not thro' his presence
  Songs may inspirit us,--not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,--while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire....
• This could but have happened once,-- And we missed it, lost it forever.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Youth and Art, xvii...
• God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.
  -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- Paracelsus, Part ii...
• Rafael made a century of sonnets. -- Robert Browning (1812-1890) -- One Word More, ii
• There shall never be one lost good! What was, shall live as before
  The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound...