Frases célebres de Robert Browning
“Parecemos tan libres y ¡estamos tan encadenados!”
Fuente: El amigo de todos: 4,850 pensamientos clasificados y 700 refranes explicados. Compilado por Victor Quintanilla Young, Vilma Elvira C. de Quintanilla.
“Ama de verdad un solo día y el mundo habrá cambiado.”
Fuente: Cabestrero Rodríguez, Teófilo. Jesús, el hombre que ama como Dios. Editorial Desclée De Brouwer, 2015. ISBN 9788433037282. https://books.google.es/books?id=4svyDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT37&dq=Ama+un+solo+d%C3%ADa+y+el+mundo+habr%C3%A1+cambiado&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibqpqElK_gAhWOlhQKHYS4AAUQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=Ama%20un%20solo%20d%C3%ADa%20y%20el%20mundo%20habr%C3%A1%20cambiado&f=false
“Cuando la lucha del hombre empieza dentro de sí, ese hombre vale algo.”
Fuente: Palomo Triguero, Eduardo. Cita-logía. Editorial Punto Rojo Libros,S.L. ISBN 978-84-16068-10-4. p. 154.
Fuente: Eusebio, Sebastián Arribas. Enciclopedia básica de la vida. Cultivalibros. 2010. ISBN 978-84-99233-42-0. p. 37.
Frases de hombres de Robert Browning
“El hombre busca su bien a costa del mundo entero.”
Fuente: Amate Pou, Jordi. Paseando por una parte de la Historia: Antología de citas. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial España, 2017. ISBN 9788417321871. p. 56.
“La culpa la tiene sólo el tiempo. Todos los hombres se tornan buenos, pero ¡tan despacio!”
Fuente: Hernández Bitor, Miguel Ángel. Confesiones desde el otro lado. Editorial Visión Libros, 2006. ISBN 9788498213935. p. 7. https://books.google.es/books?id=IPo6DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=La+culpa+la+tiene+s%C3%B3lo+el+tiempo.+Todos+los+hombres+se+tornan+buenos,+pero+%C2%A1tan+despacio!&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwitzvHdma_gAhUS1uAKHRc5C2EQ6AEIMzAC#v=onepage&q=La%20culpa%20la%20tiene%20s%C3%B3lo%20el%20tiempo.%20Todos%20los%20hombres%20se%20tornan%20buenos%2C%20pero%20%C2%A1tan%20despacio!&f=false
“Lo que ennoblece al hombre no es un acto, sino un deseo.”
Fuente: Ortega Blake, Arturo. El gran libro de las frases célebres. Editorial Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial México, 2013 ISBN 978-60-7311-631-2.
“Yo sostengo que un hombre
Tiene que luchar hasta el final
Por el precio
En que ha fijado su vida.”
Fuente: Vallvey, Ángela. El arte de amar la vida. Kailas Editorial, 2015. ISBN 9788416023776 https://books.google.es/books?id=9OedCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT109&dq=Yo+sostengo+que+un+hombre+ha+de+luchar+hasta+el+final,+por+el+precio+en+que+ha+fijado+su+vida&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5187Znq_gAhUIWxoKHRy7DNUQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Yo%20sostengo%20que%20un%20hombre%20ha%20de%20luchar%20hasta%20el%20final%2C%20por%20el%20precio%20en%20que%20ha%20fijado%20su%20vida&f=false
Robert Browning Frases y Citas
“El que escucha música siente que su soledad, de repente, se puebla.”
Fuente: León, José Vicente; Capella, Rebeca. Una música para cada día: 366 días de acontecimientos musicales. Editorial El Regalo Musical, 2014. ISBN 9781291825688. p. 128. https://books.google.es/books?id=aYilBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA128&dq=El+que+escucha+m%C3%BAsica+siente+que+su+soledad,+de+repente,+se+puebla&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXvJjjmK_gAhXB2OAKHXxbCg4Q6AEILTAB#v=onepage&q=El%20que%20escucha%20m%C3%BAsica%20siente%20que%20su%20soledad%2C%20de%20repente%2C%20se%20puebla&f=false
“La ignorancia no es tal, sino pecado.”
Fuente: Mackay, Alan L. Diccionario de citas científicas: la cosecha de una mirada serena. Volumen 1 de Proyecto Didáctico Quirón, Ciencias, Tecnología y Sociedad. Ediciones de la Torre, 1992. ISBN 9788479600242. p. 71. https://books.google.es/books?id=PvcAulSTG8gC&pg=PA71&dq=La+ignorancia+no+es+tal,+sino+pecado.+Robert+Browning&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi57_Chmq_gAhWy1uAKHcMmBPIQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=La%20ignorancia%20no%20es%20tal%2C%20sino%20pecado.%20Robert%20Browning&f=false
“Las cadenas que más nos oprimen son las que menos pesan.”
Fuente: Torres, Gabriela. Aprendiendo a vivir libre: O aprendiendo a no depender. Editorial Palibrio, 2012. ISBN 9781463320119. p. 27. https://books.google.es/books?id=jIoToGRFyWkC&pg=PA27&dq=Las+cadenas+que+m%C3%A1s+nos+oprimen+son+las+que+menos+pesan.+Robert+Browning&hl=es&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjm4LXNm6_gAhWvDmMBHfBxDWYQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Las%20cadenas%20que%20m%C3%A1s%20nos%20oprimen%20son%20las%20que%20menos%20pesan.%20Robert%20Browning&f=false
“Señor, no sigas produciendo gigantes. Eleva la raza.”
Fuente: Hinojosa Canedo, Benjamín. Quienes somos: quién es quién en Bolivia. Editorial Secretaría Nacional de Cultura, 1999. p. 16.
Robert Browning: Frases en inglés
“O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire”
Book I : The Ring and the Book <!-- line 1391 -->.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
Contexto: O lyric Love, half angel and half bird
And all a wonder and a wild desire, —
Boldest of hearts that ever braved the sun,
Took sanctuary within the holier blue,
And sang a kindred soul out to his face, —
Yet human at the red-ripe of the heart—
When the first summons from the darkling earth
Reached thee amid thy chambers, blanched their blue,
And bared them of the glory — to drop down,
To toil for man, to suffer or to die, —
This is the same voice: can thy soul know change?
Hail then, and hearken from the realms of help!
“Each a God's germ, but doomed remain a germ
In unexpanded infancy”
Book the Third
Sordello (1840)
“Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.”
"At the 'Mermaid'"(1876) <!-- line 72 - 80 -->
Contexto: Have you found your life distasteful?
My life did and does smack sweet.
Was your youth of pleasure wasteful?
Mine I save and hold complete.
Do your joys with age diminish?
When mine fail me, I'll complain.
Must in death your daylight finish?
My sun sets to rise again.
Book X: The Pope.<!-- line 1235 -->
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats”
The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 10 (1842).
Contexto: Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles,
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men's Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women's chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.
“Let us cry, "All good things
Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!"”
Fuente: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 70.
“Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!”
Fuente: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 12.
Contexto: Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!
Not for such hopes and fears
Annulling youth's brief years,
Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark!
Rather I prize the doubt
Low kinds exist without,
Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark.
Poor vaunt of life indeed,
Were man but formed to feed
On joy, to solely seek and find and feast;
Such feasting ended, then
As sure an end to men.
"Andrea del Sarto", line 70
"Less is more" is often misattributed to architects Buckminster Fuller or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It is something of a motto for minimalist philosophy. It was used in 1774 by Christoph Martin Wieland.
Men and Women (1855)
Contexto: I do what many dream of, all their lives,
— Dream? strive to do, and agonize to do,
And fail in doing. I could count twenty such
On twice your fingers, and not leave this town,
Who strive — you don't know how the others strive
To paint a little thing like that you smeared
Carelessly passing with your robes afloat —
Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,
(I know his name, no matter) — so much less!
Well, less is more, Lucrezia: I am judged.
There burns a truer light of God in them,
In their vexed beating stuffed and stopped-up brain,
Heart, or whate'er else, than goes on to prompt
This low-pulsed forthright craftsman's hand of mine.
“Rather I prize the doubt
Low kinds exist without,
Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark.”
Fuente: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 12.
Contexto: Mine be some figured flame which blends, transcends them all!
Not for such hopes and fears
Annulling youth's brief years,
Do I remonstrate: folly wide the mark!
Rather I prize the doubt
Low kinds exist without,
Finished and finite clods, untroubled by a spark.
Poor vaunt of life indeed,
Were man but formed to feed
On joy, to solely seek and find and feast;
Such feasting ended, then
As sure an end to men.
“I find earth not gray but rosy;
Heaven not grim but fair of hue.”
"At the 'Mermaid'"(1876).
Contexto: I find earth not gray but rosy;
Heaven not grim but fair of hue.
Do I stoop? I pluck a posy; Do I stand and stare? All's blue.
“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what's a heaven for?”
"Andrea del Sarto", line 98.
Men and Women (1855)
Fuente: Men and Women and Other Poems
Fuente: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 1.
Contexto: Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in his hand
Who saith, "A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!"
As quoted in Love's Way (1918) by Orison Swett Marden, p. 175; no earlier citation of this to Browning has been located.
Disputed
Variante: Love is energy of life.
“Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!”
"Fra Lippo Lippi, line 54.
Men and Women (1855)
Variante: Without love, our earth is a tomb
“When the fight begins within himself,
A man's worth something.”
"Bishop Blougram's Apology".
Men and Women (1855)
“Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character”
Fuente: Browning's Paracelsus: Being the Text of Browning's Poem
“Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.”
Fuente: A Death in the Desert (1864), Line 59.
Fuente: Dramatic Lyrics
"Bishop Blougram’s Apology", line 395; cited by Graham Greene as the epigraph he would choose for his novels.
Men and Women (1855)
“Open my heart and you will see
Graved inside of it, "Italy".”
"De Gustibus", ii.
Men and Women (1855)
Contexto: Italy, my Italy!
Queen Mary's saying serves for me
(When fortune's malice
Lost her Calais):
"Open my heart, and you will see
Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'"
“If you get simple beauty and naught else,
You get about the best thing God invents.”
"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 217.
Men and Women (1855)
Fuente: The Poems of Robert Browning
