How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
- Source
- Sonnet 43, Sonnets from the Portuguese, 1850
- Written
- 1850
About this quotation
This is the opening line of Sonnet 43, the best known of the forty-four love sonnets she wrote to Robert Browning. The title Sonnets from the Portuguese was a cover: the poems are her own, not translations, and Browning is said to have chosen the title.