Robert Browning Quotes on Love
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Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up.
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We loved, sir - used to meet: How sad and bad and mad it was - But then, how it was sweet!
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Womanliness means only motherhood; All love begins and ends there.
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Never the time and the place And the loved one all together!
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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!
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Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
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O lyric Love, half-angel and half-bird And all a wonder and a wild desire.
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Love is energy of life.
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He is called an optimist; but the word suggests a calculated contentment which was not in the least one of his vices. What he really was was a romantic. He offered the cosmos as an adventure rather than a scheme. He did not explain evil, far less explain it away: he enjoyed defying it. He was a troubadour even in theology and metaphysics: like the Jongleurs de Dieu of St. Francis. He may be said to have serenaded heaven with a guitar, and even, so to speak, tried to climb there with a rope ladder.