It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.

Famous Quotes / Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced."

Quotations about

Artists	Association	Dearly	Fact
Fixed	Forever	Involved	Likeness
Loved	Lying	Memorial	Merely
Monstrous	Nearness	Noblest	Person
Portraits	Precious	Produced	Rather
Sanctification	Sense	Shadow	Such
Thing	Think	Very	Work

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It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning