Out of the wreck I rise.

Taken at face value, the line asserts resilience: even after catastrophe (“wreck”), the speaker claims the power to stand up again. In Browning’s dramatic-lyric mode, such a statement typically belongs to a voiced persona rather than the poet’s own autobiography, and it compresses a narrative of failure, loss, or ruin into a single defiant motion—rising. The phrasing also suggests moral or spiritual recovery: the “wreck” can be read as the collapse of plans, reputation, or inner certainty, while “I rise” emphasizes will, self-reconstruction, and renewed agency. As a standalone quotation, it functions as an epigram of perseverance, though its precise nuance depends on the poem and speaker from which it is drawn.