“Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.”

Book V.
Aurora Leigh http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/barrett/aurora/aurora.html (1857)
Variant: Whoso loves
Believes the impossible.

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English poet, author 1806–1861

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