Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"Without sacrifice, there is no creation."

"All I have loved has been lost to me, yet love is not lost."

"The past cannot be changed, but the future is yet in your power."

"We must find strength in our faith and conviction in our hearts."

"To be a poet is to have a soul so fine that nothing can touch it without wounding."

"The greatest gift is the ability to forgive."

"Let us live and love, for life is short and death is long."

"The heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care."

"I have a smile for everyone, and everyone smiles in return."

"Knowledge by suffering entereth, and Life is perfected by Death."

"Unless you can muse in a crowd all day on the object of your love, never pretend to it at all."

"Do you know what you are? You are a marvel."

"Pursue knowledge as if your life depended on it."

"The greatest thing by far is to be a poet."

"I live with the object I love."

"Some women have a dumb preference for being liked over being esteemed."

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."

"Truth in all things is the foundation of all virtue."

"Work is prayer, when done with sincere intention."

"The only impeccable writers are those that never wrote."

"I have faith that God will make it clear."

"To change is to mature, to have another set of eyes."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"Every creature alive has within it the spark of divinity."

"No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."

"Poets ever fail of doing themselves justice."

"Love will make small cottages feel like palaces."

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

"My heart is for the noble causes of freedom and justice."

"Grief is the price we pay for love."