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• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- Aurora Leigh, Book ii...
• And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- A Vision of Poe...
• And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- A Vision of Poe...
• Since when was genius found respectable? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Who so loves believes the impossible. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- Crowned and buried, xxvii...
• By thunders of white silence.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- Hiram Powers's Greek Slave...
• Death forerunneth Love to win "Sweetest eyes were ever seen.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- Catarina to Camoens, ix...
• Knowledge by suffering entereth, And life is perfected by death.
  -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1809-1861) -- A Vision of Poets, Conclusio...