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Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. -- Edward Dowden
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] Her sweetness of character is even beyond her genius. -- Mary Russell Mitford
When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say. -- Harper Lee
That little burning bush that is the signature of the blog - it echoes Elizabeth Barrett Browning's words. -- Ann Voskamp
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. -- Carl Sandburg
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? -- Dorothy Fields
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush. -- Robert Breault
My first, big, silly role at school was as Arthur Crocker-Harris in Rattigan's 'The Browning Version,' where my job was to make school-masters' wives weep with recognition. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express something which she found beyond expression. -- Marie Corelli
[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint. -- Mary Russell Mitford
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility. -- T. S. Eliot
I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Theatre aside, my penchant for the extended monologue began with my reading of Browning's dramatic monologues, in high school. My inclination to adopt the form for prose was confirmed by Richard Howard's book of dramatic monologues, Untitled Subjects. -- Norman Lock
The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. -- Marie Corelli
Mandelstam's style is not singular. He could be stately and traditional, ribald and funny, hectic, elegiac. He could handle abstractions and ideas as well as Pope or Browning but then be so musical that other poems approach pure sound. -- Christian Wiman
Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement and by-play of the mind, but a co-ordinate power. Its work is unhappily styled fiction; for to idealize is to realize. -- C. A. Bartol
Oh!s little bird told us,' said Miss Browning. Molly knew that little bird from her childhood, and had always hated it, and longed to wring its neck. Why could not people speak out and say that they did not mean to give up the name of their informant?" -- Elizabeth Gaskell
Or from Browning some "Pomegranate," which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Often I have the impression that I am writing on paper that is already browning in the licks of the flames. -- Ernst Junger
Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season. -- Nadine Gordimer
When I was little in Spokane, Washington I drew all the time... and my father would bring paper home... and I mostly drew browning automatic water-cooled sub-machine guns... that was my favorite -- David Lynch

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