English - Poet | March 6, 1806 - June 29, 1861
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
LoveMeCountHowWaysI Love
Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
LifeLoveGodDeathTearsBetter
What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?
PowerGeniusIndividualityNew
But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
ManSilenceChildStrongStrong Man
At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.
ImpossibleReadingEnoughDistraction
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.
DreamsGodBestManShameGifts
He said true things, but called them by wrong names.
WrongSaidTrueNamesThingsHe
Since when was genius found respectable?
GeniusFoundSinceRespectable
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
LifeGirlFireSorryWingsAlive
He lives most life whoever breathes most air.
LifeAirMostHeLivesWhoever
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
BeautyBeautifulWeaknessWrong
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.
TimeMeWhiteHandFirst TimeClean
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