Alfred Tennyson: Poet Laureate of Victorian Britain, 1809 to 1892.
Alfred Tennyson · The source reads: “I hold it true, whate'er befall; / I feel it, when I sorrow most; / 'Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.” · From the elegy for his friend Arthur Hallam, the lines everyone knows and most credit to Shakespeare.
Often credited to Alfred Tennyson · Tennyson never wrote it; the line first appears in a Valentine's advertisement in 1985 with no author, was credited to a Claudia Grandi in 1992, and was pinned on Tennyson by a craft book in 2005.
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