Love Letters

I love you as one should, to excess,
with folly, delight and despair ...
But, my friend, I do something better
than to love I know how to suffer.
Love Letters
From Julie de L'Espinasse
to Comte de Guilbert


Venice

Eight days have passed since I parted from f.f.,
and already it is as though I had been eight
years away from her, although I can avow that not
one hour has passed without her memory which has
become such a close companion to my thoughts that
now more than ever is it the food and sustenance
of my soul; and if it should endure like this
a few days more, as seems it must, I truly believe
it will in every way have assumed the office of
my soul, and I shall then live and thrive on the
memory of her as do other men upon their souls,
and I shall have no life but in this single thought.

Let the God who so decrees do as he will, so long
as in exchange I may have as much a part of her as
shall suffice to prove the gospel of our affinity
is founded on true prophecy. Often I find myself
recalling, and with what ease, certain words spoken
to me, some on the balcony with the moon as witness,
others at that window I shall always look upon so
gladly, with all the many endearing and gracious
acts I have seen my gentle lady perform, for all are
dancing about my heart with a tenderness so wondrous
that they inflame me with a strong desire to beg her
to test the quality of my love.

For I shall never rest content until I am certain
she knows what she is able to enact in me and how
great and strong is the fire that her great worth
has kindled in my breast. The flame of true love is
a mighty force, and most of all when two equally
matched wills in two exalted minds contend to see
which loves the most, each striving to give yet
more vital proof...It would be the greatest delight
for me to see just two lines in f.f.'s hand, yet I
dare not ask so much. May your Ladyship beseech
her to perform whatever you feel is best for me.
With my heart I kiss your Ladyship's hand, since
I cannot with my lips.
Pietro Bembo A Love Letter


The passion of love has need to be productive of much
delight; as where it takes thorough possession of the
man, it almost unfits him for anything else. The lover
who is certain of an equal return of affection, is
surely the happiest of men; but he who is a prey to
the horrors of anxiety and dreaded disappointment, is
a being whose situation is by no means enviable.
Of this, my present experience gives me much proof.
To me, amusement seems impertinent, and business
intrusion, while you alone engross every faculty of
my mind. May I request you to drop me a line, to
inform me when I may wait upon you? For pity's sake,
do; and let me have it soon. In the meantime allow me,
in all the artless sincerity of truth, to assure you
that I truly am, my dearest Madam,
your arden lover, and devoted humble servant.
Love Letters
Robert Burns


Political Quotes by Famous People in History
Love Letters Edgar Allen Poe Valentine

For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,
Brightly expressive as the twins of Leda,
Shall find her own sweet name, that nestling lies
Upon the page, enwrapped from every reader.
Search narrowly the lines! they hold a treasure
Devine-a talisman-an amulet
That must be worn at heart. Search well the measure-
The words- thesyllables! Do not forget
The trivialest point, or you may lose your labor
And yet there is in this no Gordian knot
Which one might not undo without a sabre,
If one could merely comprehend the plot.
Enwritten upon the leaf where now are peering
Eyes scintillating soul, there lie perdus
Three eloquent words oft uttered in the hearing
Of poets, by poets- as the name is a poet's, too,
Its letters, although naturally lying
Like the knight Pinto-Mendez Ferdinando-
Still form a synonym for Truth - Cease trying!
You will not read the riddle, though you do the
best you can do.
Edgar Allen Poe


Love Letters After Marriage to Elizabeth Barrett

You will only expect a few words, what will those be?
When the heart is full it may run over, but the real
fullness stays within.

You asked me yesterday "if I should repent?"
Yes, my own Ba, I could with all the past were
to do over again, that in it I might somewhat
more, never so little more, conform in the outward
homage, to the inward feeling, What I have professed,
(for I have performed nothing) seems to fall short
of what my first love required even, and when I think
of this moment's love...I could repent, as I say.

Words can never tell you, however, form them,
transform them anyway, how perfectly dear you
are to me, perfectly dear to my heart and soul.

I look back, and in every one point, every word
and gesture, every letter, every silence, you have
been entirley perfect to me, I would not change
one word, one look.

My hope and aim are to preserve this love, not to
fall from it, for which I trust to God who procured
it for me, and doubtless can preserve it.

Enough now, my dearest, dearest, own Ba! You have
given me the highest, completest proof of love that
ever one human being gave another. I am all gratitude,
and all pride (under the proper feeling which ascribes
pride to the right source) all pride that my life has
been so crowned by you.

God bless you prays your very own R.


Love Letter to Victor Hugo

I need your love as a touchstone of my existence.
It is the sun which breathes life into me.
Juliette Drouet


Love Letters From Ludwig Van Beethoven

To the Immortal Beloved,
Good morning. Though still in bed my thoughts go out
to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully,
then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will
hear us. I can live wholly with you or not at all - yes,
I am resolved to wander so long away from you until
I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home,
send my soul enwrapped in you in the land of spirits.
Yes, unhappily it must be so, you will be the more
resolved since you know my fidelity to you, no one
can ever again possess my heart- none-never- Oh, God!
why is it necessary to part from one whom one so
loves and yet my life in W. (Vienna) is now a wretched
life, your love makes me at once the happiest and the
unhappiest of men at my age, I need a steady, quiet
life, can that be under our condition? My angel, I have
just been told that the mail coach goes every day and
I must close at once so that you may receive the L.
at once. Be calm, only by a clam consideration of our
existence can we achieve our purpose to live together,
be calm, love me, today, yesterday, what tearful
longings for you, you, you, my life, my all, farewell,
Oh continue to love me, never misjuge the most faithful
heart of your beloved L.
ever thine
ever mine
ever for each other.
Ludwig Van Beethoven


Love Letters to Wife From James Joyce

You are my only love. You have me completely in your
power. I know and feel that if I am to write anything
fine and noble in the future I shall do so only by
listening at the doors of your heart. I would like to
go through life side by side with you, telling you more
and more until we grew to be one being together until
the hour should come for us to die.
James Joyce


Love Letters From John Keats to Fanny Brawne

I never knew before, what such love as you have made
me feel, was; I did not believe in it; my Fanny was
afraid of it, lest it burn me up. But if you will
fully love me, though there may be some fire 'twill
not be more than we can bear when moistened and
bedewed with Pleasures...I love you the more in that
I believe you have liked me for my own sake and nothing
eles. I have met with women whom I really think would
like to be married to a Poem and to be given away by a
Novel. Every yours, my love!

I have no limits now to my love. I have been astonished
that men could die martyrs of religion. I have shuddered
at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyred for religion-
love is my religion - I could die for you. My creed is
love and you are its only tenet. You have ravished me
away by a pwoer I cannot resist...My love is selfish.
I cannot breathe without you ...Yours for ever.
- John Keats

I love you soulfully and bodyfully,
properly and improperly, every way
a woman can be loved.
- George Bernard Shaw

Letters are among the most significant
memorial a person can leave behind them.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Letter writing is the only device for
combining solitude with good company.
- Lord Byron

Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls.
For, thus friends absent speak.
- John Donne




The Largest Letter
The largest permanent letters in the world are the giant 600-ft letters spelling READY MIX on the ground in the Nullarbor near East Balladonia, W Australia.

The Smallest Letter
The 16 letters MOLECULAR DEVICES have been etched into a salt crystal by an electron beam so that the strokes are only 2 to 3 mm wide, the width of 20 hydrogen atoms. This was done by Michael Isaacson at Cornell University.
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