Barrett Browning

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    “Experience, like a pale musician, holds
    A dulcimer of patience in his hand.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “What is art,
    But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
    When, graduating up in a spiral line
    Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
    It pushes toward the intense significance
    Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
    Art’s life,—and where we live, we suffer and toil.”
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    “Go practise if you please
    With men and women: leave a child alone
    For Christ’s particular love’s sake!”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)