Famous quotes containing the words barrett browning, barrett and/or browning:
““Yes,” I answered you last night,
“No,” this morning, Sir, I say.
Colours seen by candle-light,
Will not look the same by day.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everything ... and that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself.”
—William Barrett (b. 1913)
“My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)