“It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.”
Art
“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”
FaithAll Quotes by Robert Browning
“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”
Beauty“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”
Art“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”
Music“So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.”
Love“Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.”
Alone“What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.”
Age“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”
Faith“Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.”
Business“White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.”
Business“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
Best“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”
Age“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
Failure“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.”
Strength“God is the perfect poet.”
Poetry“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Alone“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Religion“Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.”
Mothersday“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Best“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.”
Age