Robert Browning Quote

We're made so that we love
First when we see them painted, things we have passed
Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;
And so they are better, painted —better to us,
Which is the same thing. Art was given for that.


Fra Lippo Lippi (1855), l. 300


We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better,...

We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better,...

We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better,...

We're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better,...