"Do not say / "I love her for her smile..."

Quotes
Written By Rhonda Ortiz

Do not say / "I love her for her smile — her look — her way / Of speaking gently, — for a trick of thought / That falls in well with mine, and certes brought / A sense of pleasant ease on such a day" — / For these things in themselves, Beloved, may / Be changed, or change for thee, — and love, so wrought, / May be unwrought so.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIV

Rhonda Ortiz

Rhonda Ortiz is an award-winning novelist, a founding editor of Chrism Press, and the editor in chief of Dappled Things. Find her online at rhondaortiz.com.

http://www.rhondaortiz.com
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