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Robert Browning

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


— Robert Browning


#exceed #grasp #heaven #his #man

Ignorance is not innocence but sin.


— Robert Browning


#innocence #sin

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.


— Robert Browning


#feels #hears #his #once #peopled

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.


— Robert Browning


#changes #earth #god #soul #stand

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice.


— Robert Browning


#bad #being #black #business #choice

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.


— Robert Browning


#death #dream #face #lose #meet

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!


— Robert Browning


#burn #cheeks #clutch #core #ecstasy

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.


— Robert Browning


#i #june #leaves #now #rose

Ambition is not what man does... but what man would do.


— Robert Browning


#does #man #would

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character.


— Robert Browning


#character #fear #hope #humanity #love






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In these years Browning was fascinated by and learned from the art and atmosphere of Italy. The subject of the 16th century savant and alchemist was probably suggested to him by the Comte Amédée de Ripart-Monclar to whom it was dedicated. Browning then wrote two other plays one of which was not performed while the other failed Browning having fallen out with Macready.

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