Famous quotes containing the word barrett:
“Whats this, Aurora Leigh,
You write so of the poets and not laugh?
Those virtuous liars, dreamers after dark,
Exaggerators of the sun and moon,
And soothsayers in a tea-cup? I write so
Of the only truth-tellers, now left to God,
The only speakers of essential truth,
Opposed to relative, comparative,
And temporal truths;...
The only teachers who instruct mankind,
From just a shadow on a charnel-wall.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“For tis not in mere death that men die most.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“What monster have we here?
A great Deed at this hour of day?
A great just Deedand not for pay?
Absurd,or insincere.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
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