Robert Browning

Bekannte Zitate von Robert Browning

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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

Take away love and our earth is a tomb.

So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

It is the glory and good of Art, That Art remains the one way possible Of speaking truth, to mouths like mine at least.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

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

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

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

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

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

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.

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