Barrett Browning

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“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)

“What is genius—but the power of expressing a new individuality?”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“I think I never saw
Such starved ignoble nature;”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)