"We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident,..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.
More by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“But I love you, sir:And when a woman says she loves a man,The man must hear her, though he love her not.”
“And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.”
“A great acacia, with its slender trunkAnd overpoise of multitudinous leaves.(In which a hundred fields might spill their dewAnd intense verdure, yet find room enough)Stood reconciling all the place with green.”
More on Human Nature
“Legislators invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind.”
“We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.”
“Modern man is battered by the fundamental forces of his own psyche.”