"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you












Quick-loving hearts ... may quickly loathe.

More Elizabeth Barrett Browning quotes
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you a...
"Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being.
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach
"Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.
"His answer was - not the common gallantries which come so easily to the lips of me - but simply that he loved me - he met argument with fact. He told ...
"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
"You have touched me more profoundly than I thought even you could have touched me - my heart was full when you came here today. Henceforward I am your...
"And wilt thou have me fashion into speechThe love I bear thee, finding words enough,And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough,Between our face...
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and heightMy soul can reach, when feeling out of sightFor the ends of b...
"And yet, because I love thee, I obtainFrom that same love this vindicating grace,To live on still in love, and yet in vain
"I thought once how Theocritus had sungOf the sweet years, the dear and wished-for years,Who each one in a gracious hand appearsTo bear a gift for mort...
"My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!And yet they seem alive and quiveringAgainst my tremulous hands which loose the stringAnd let them drop dow...
"Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love.