Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book VII. Probably in reference to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Epigram to History: "There is no great and no small".
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"There's nothing great Nor small," has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Poets
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About Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6 1806 – June 29 1861) was an English poet and the wife of Robert Browning.
About Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6 1806 – June 29 1861) was an English poet and the wife of Robert Browning.
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