Frases de Robert Browning

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“A ignorância não é inocência, mas pecado.”

“O poder do Homem deve exceder o seu alcance. Senão, para que serviria o céu?”

“Para fazer boas coisas no mundo, primeiro você precisa saber quem é você e o que dá sentido à sua vida.”

“Deus é o perfeito poeta,
que actua nas suas próprias criações.”

“Oh, faz-nos felizes, e nos terás feito bons.”

“O que enobrece o homem não é o seu acto mas o seu desejo.”

“O homem não pode obter verdade mais verdadeira do que aquela que vem da música.”

“A verdade está em nós, não vem de fora.”

“Cada alegria é um proveito, e um proveito é um proveito, por mais pequeno que seja.”

“Quem ouve música sente que a sua solidão, de repente, se povoa.”

“Mede a altura do teu espírito pela sombra que projeta.”

“É indispensável querermos deitar a mão a mais do que podemos alcançar; senão para que serviria o céu?”

“A verdade nunca fere quem a diz.”

“Deus deve estar contente por alguém amar tanto o Seu mundo.”

“O demônio é mais diabólico quando é respeitável.”

“Nossas aspirações são nossas possibilidades.”

“Meu sol se põe para surgir novamente.”

“[…]his back is fairly turned?
The pair of goodly palaces are burned,
The gardens ravaged, and your Guelf is drunk
A week with joy; the next, his laughter sunk
In sobs of blood, for he found, some strange way,
Old Salinguerra back again; I say
Old Salinguerra in the town once more
Uprooting, overturning, flame before
Blood fetlock-high beneath him; Azzo fled;
Who scaped the carnage followed; then the dead
Were pushed aside from Salinguerra's throne.
He ruled once more Ferrara, all alone.
Till Azzo, stunned awhile, revived, would pounce;
Coupled with Boniface, like lynx and ounce.”

“But little do or can the best of us:
That little is achieved through Liberty.”

“But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?”

“And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting us to ignorance again.”

“The body sprang
At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,—no!”

“The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”

“Lofty designs must close in like effects.”

“What's come to perfection perishes.
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.”

“Truth is within ourselves.”

“Wanting is—what?
Summer redundant,
Blueness abundant,
Where is the blot?”

“Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.”

“There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.”

“God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.”

“Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised)
Linking our England to his Italy.”

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

“The peerless cup afloat
Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph
Swims bearing high above her head.”

“Fool! All that is, at all,
Lasts ever, past recall;
Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure:
What entered into thee,
That was, is, and shall be:
Time's wheel runs back or stops: Potter and clay endure.”

“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”

“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”

“You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.”

“Look not thou down but up!
To uses of a cup.”

“Can we love but on condition that the thing we love must die?”

“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.”

“The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung
To their first fault, and withered in their pride.”

“The sprinkled isles,
Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.”

“That great brow
And the spirit-small hand propping it.”

“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!”

“In the morning of the world,
When earth was nigher heaven than now.”

“The ultimate, angels' law,
Indulging every instinct of the soul
There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing!”