The poet Robert Browning was born on this date in 1812. Some poetic quotes from him:
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
- But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.
- Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
- What Youth deemed crystal, age finds out was dew.
- On a day like today I am stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.
- God's in His heaven— All's right with the world!
- A minute's success pays the failure of years.
- Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be.
- Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, the superstitious atheist.
- Why stay we on earth except to grow?
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