On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.
Robert Browning
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Robert Browning
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
Robert Browning
Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
Robert Browning
Take away love and our earth is a tomb.
Robert Browning
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
The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
Robert Browning
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning
Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!
Robert Browning
What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?
Robert Browning
What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.
Robert Browning
What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.
Robert Browning
White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.
Robert Browning
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
You should not take a fellow eight years old and make him swear to never kiss the girls.
Robert Browning
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