Poetry Quote by Anne Brontë — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“All our talents increase in the using, and the every faculty, both good and bad, strengthen by exercise.”

“What the world stigmatizes as romantic is often more nearly allied to the truth than is commonly supposed.”

“when we have to do with vice and vicious characters, I maintain it is better to depict them as they really are than as they would wish to appear.”

“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”

“When we had surmounted the acclivity, I was about to withdraw my arm from his, but by a slight tightening of the elbow was tacitly informed that such was not his will, and accordingly desisted.”

“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut.”

“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...”

“she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks.”

“Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.”

“Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.”

“I still remember you”

“The rain to the wind said,”