“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.”
AloneAll Quotes by Robert Browning
“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”
Art“If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.”
Beauty“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”
Best“Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
Alone“A minute's success pays the failure of years.”
Failure“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”
Beauty“God is the perfect poet.”
Poetry“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity These are its sign and note and character.”
Faith“Take away love and our earth is a tomb.”
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“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”
Religion“A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.”
Age“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“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“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“I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.”
Strength“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