Literary Birthday – 6 March – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born on 6 March 1806, and died on 29 June 1861.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
- I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
- You’re something between a dream and a miracle.
- What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement.
- At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
- Who so loves believes the impossible.
- You may write twenty lines one day–or even three like Euripides in three days–and a hundred lines in one more day–and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three.
- Since when was genius found respectable?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent poets of the Victorian era. Her poetry was widely popular in both England and the United States during her lifetime. Her legacy rests chiefly upon her love poems, Sonnets from the Portuguese, and Aurora Leigh, which is considered an early feminist text. According to Wikipedia: ‘She campaigned for the abolition of slavery, and her work helped influence reform in child labour legislation. Her prolific output made her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate on the death of Wordsworth.’ A collection of her last poems was published by her husband, Robert Browning, shortly after her death. Her poems are available in The Collected Poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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