Bronte is both a poet and an author! In fact, I've read one of her books before for schooling- Jane Eyre. It wasn't one of my favorites and I must say that I've found her poetry much more likable. She comes from a family of writers, with her sister Emily Bronte being renowned for the book Wuthering Heights. I believe I've also read that, and didn't enjoy that any much more that Jane Eyre. Ah well. At least her poetry is good. While I don't appreciate it as much as I do Shakespeare or Dickinson, I'd still recommend giving her a read just for the exposure. But this blog post isn't about poetry- it's about quotes and unearthing the wisdom behind poets/authors.
"Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive." "If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than our own." "Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation." "Life appears to me too short to be spent on nursing animosity, or registering wrongs." "I believe in some blending of sunshine and hope sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep." "Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion." "I would always rather be happy than dignified." "I feel monotony and death to be almost the same." "Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us."
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