Quote of the Day (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, on What It Takes ‘To Move the Masses’)

“I hold you will not compass your poor ends
Of barley-feeding and material ease,
Without a poet's individualism
To work your universal. It takes a soul,
To move a body: it takes a high-souled man,
To move the masses ... even to a cleaner stye:
It takes the ideal, to blow a hair's breadth off
The dust of the actual.–ah, your Fouriers failed,
Because not poets enough to understand
That life develops from within.”— English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861), “Aurora Leigh” (1856)

Spiritual Quote of the Day (Elizabeth Barrett Browning, on ‘Every Common Bush Afire With God’)

“Earth’s crammed with heaven,        
And every common bush afire with God;     
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,     
The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.”—English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), Aurora Leigh (1856)