Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: March 6, 1806 - June 29, 1861
Birthday: March 6
Death: June 29
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.957, Delphi Classics
topic: Girl, Sorry, Fire, Blushing, Flare Up, Flare
