Barrett

Famous quotes containing the word barrett:

    What’s 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 (1806–1861)

    For ‘tis not in mere death that men die most.
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    What monster have we here?
    A great Deed at this hour of day?
    A great just Deed—and not for pay?
    Absurd,—or insincere.
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)