*You’re something between a dream and a miracle.* [*Elizabeth Barrett Browning*](http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67032.Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning?utm_medium=email&utm_source=quote_of_the_day) January 21, 1846: On this day, English poet Elizabeth Barrett gave Robert Browning (her soon-to-be-husband) a penholder she had owned as a child. She hoped the writing tool would serve him as well as it had served her.