“What Youth deemed crystal, / Age finds out was dew.”

— Robert Browning, Jochanan Hakkadosh, 1883

About Robert Browning

1812 – 1889

English poet and playwright, known for his dramatic monologues.

“Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.”

“Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made.”

“Good, to forgive; best to forget.”

“With rebellion, awareness is born.”

“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”

“The age of antiquity is the youth of the world.”

“Happiness was born a twin.”

“Youth, large, lusty, loving—Youth, full of grace, force, fascination!”

“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion.”