I would have loved to have known Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Anyone who write the following was surely worth knowing don't you think?

"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach when feeling out of sight.
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I love thee freely as men search for right
I love thee purely as they turn from praise
I love thee with the breath smiles tears of all my life
And if God choose i shall but love better after death.