More from Robert Browning
- Men and Women (1855), “Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54.
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?Andrea del Sarto (1855), Men and Women (1855), “Andrea del Sarto”, line 98.In context
What’s come to perfection perishes.
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
Robert Browning on art
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Old Pictures in Florence, xvii.
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