"I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
"Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains."
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Source: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.420
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