Robert Browning

Robert Browning

Poet, Playwright

Robert Browning was a 19th-century English poet known for his innovative use of dramatic monologues and exploration of complex human emotions.

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Born
May 7, 1812
Died
December 12, 1889
Quotes
333
Rank
#548

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"how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet"

Sweet Reflection Mad
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"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."

Beauty Attitude Simple
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"It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad."

Evil Mad Being Me
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"God's justice, tardy though it prove perchance, Rests never on the track until it reach Delinquency."

God Track Justice
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"Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more."

Soul May Slumber
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"There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music"

Music Men Piano
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"Have you found your life distasteful? My life did, and does, smack sweet. Was your youth of pleasure wasteful? Mine I saved and hold complete. Do your joys with age diminish? When mine fail me, I'll complain. Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again."

Life Sweet Failure
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"Earth is crammed with heavens."

Heaven Earth
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"Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'"

Heart My Heart
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"Every one soon or late comes round by Rome."

Rome Late Rounds
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"For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave, The black minute's at end, And the elements' rage, the fiend voices that rave, Shall dwindle, shall blend, Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain, Then a light, then thy breast, O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again, And with God be the rest!"

Pain Light Voice
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"Go practice if you please with men and women: leave a child alone for Christ's particular love's sake!"

Love Children Men
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"Make us happy and you make us good."

Happiness Happy
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"From the sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea."

Islands Sea Lilies
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"That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!"

Wise Song Thinking
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