“But love me for love's sake, that evermore Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity.”

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), No. XIV

About Elizabeth Barrett Browning

1806 – 1861

English poet of the Victorian era, author of 'Sonnets from the Portuguese'.

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.”

“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour done.”

“Every wish is like a prayer—with God.”

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.”

“Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love.”

“I call upon you, young men, to obey your heart, and be the nobility of this land.”

“Give all to love; obey thy heart.”