Robert Browning citáty

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„Vím určitě, že radši budu snášet trpkou a bolestivou smrt, než abych připustil mučení jediného psa nebo kočky, jen abych byl ušetřen bolesti.“

„Zamilovaný je ten, kdo je ochoten vsadit vše do hry lásky bez záruky na štěstí.“

„Nejcitlivěji býváme zraněni těmi, bez nichž si svůj život nedovedeme v plném rozsahu představit.“

„Nikoliv láska, ale plodnost je ten největší zázrak přírody.“

„Zestárni se mnou!
Neboť to nejlepší nás teprve čeká.
příští dny budou naplněním předešlých…“

„Moje slunce zapadá, aby vyšlo znovu.“

„Člověk má jít za obzor svých možností, od čeho má nebesa?“

„Mým úkolem není se předělat, ale vytvořit naprosto nejlepší věc z toho, co stvořil bůh.“

„Láska musí být hra vášní. Pokud je to jenom vášeň, je utrpením.“

„V každé lásce k druhému je přes polovinu sebelásky.“

“[…]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!”