To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..
H.P. LovecraftI have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
Cornel WestTags: love letters ideas wise idealist
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
A.S. ByattYou deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
Jane AustenI have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter."
(Letter 16, 1657)
Tags: humor writing letters wit brevity conciseness correspondence pithy
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
John DonneTags: letters
Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.
Virginia WoolfA letter is always better than a phone call. People write things in letters they would never say in person. They permit themselves to write down feelings and observations using emotional syntax far more intimate and powerful than speech will allow.
Alice SteinbachLetters always frustrate me with what's left out.
Eileen DrewTags: letters correspondence
(Quoting Goethe:)
"We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
Tags: letters memory correspondence
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