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1 " how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet "
― Robert Browning
2 " Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,Or what's a heaven for? "
― Robert Browning , Men and Women and Other Poems
3 " My sun sets to rise again. "
― Robert Browning , Browning: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington
4 " There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without. "
5 " Love is the energy of life. "
6 " Take away love and our earth is a tomb. "
7 " What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew "
― Robert Browning , Jocoseria: "Grow old with me! The best is yet to be"
8 " The rain set early in tonight,The sullen wind was soon awake,It tore the elm-tops down for spite,And did its best to vex the lake:I listened with heart fit to break.When glided in Porphyria; straightShe shut the cold out and the storm,And kneeled and made the cheerless grateBlaze up and all the cottage warm; "
9 " I am one who could have forgotten the plague, listening to Boccaccio's stories; and I am not ashamed of it. "
― Robert Browning , The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barret Barrett 1845-1846 Vol I (1899)
10 " Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character "
― Robert Browning ,
11 " Days decrease, / And autumn grows, autumn in everything. "
12 " Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once. "
― Robert Browning , The complete poetical works of Browning
13 " In this world, who can do a thing, will not;And who would do it, cannot, I perceive:Yet the will's somewhat — somewhat, too, the power —And thus we half-men struggle. "
― Robert Browning , Robert Browning's Poetry
14 " A lion may die of an ass's kick. "
15 " The power of the night, the press of the storm, the post of the foe; where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, yet, the strong man must go. "
― Robert Browning , The Poetical works of Robert Browning
16 " Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made ... "
17 " A minute’s success pays the failure of years. "
18 " I was made and meant to look for you and wait for you and become yours forever. "
19 " The gray sea and the long black land; And the yellow half-moon large and low: And the startled little waves that leap In fiery ringlets from their sleep, As I gain the cove with pushing prow,And quench its speed i’ the slushy sand. "
― Robert Browning , Dramatic Lyrics
20 " Without love, our earth is a tomb "
