Robert Browning

“The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!”

“I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.”

“Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.”

“Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”

“There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness;....and, to know, rather consists in opening out a way where the imprisoned splendor may escape, then in effecting entry for a light supposed to be without.”

“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”

“Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.”

“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.”

“Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?”

“But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.”

“Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.”

“Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.”

“What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.”

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?”

“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”

“Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.”

“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”

“Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!”

“What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?”

“Thou art my single day, God lends to leaven What were all earth else, with a feel of heaven.”