Hand written love letters are such a romantic and intimate way to express, what we truly feel. It sounds old-fashioned, when we can download pre-set message formats, from a 1st date invite to anniversaries. Just copy and paste love quotes, e-cards, virtual flowers, hugs or kisses, silly heart emoji’s or invent short-codes for texting, sexting…
Why bother being thoughtful or creative with words..?
Here’s a few snippets of some beautiful love letters:
The Love-Dumb Husband Letter – Letters to Vera
My tenderness, my happiness, what words can I write for you? I don’t know how to tell you how I love, how I desire you. Such agitation and such divine peace, melting clouds immersed in sunshine, mounds of happiness. And I am floating with you, in you, aflame and melting. A whole life with you, is like the movement of clouds…
The Final Words – Katherine’s Letter, The English Patient
My darling, I’m waiting for you. How long is a day in the dark? The fire is gone now and I’m horribly cold. I know you will come and carry me out into the palace of winds. That’s all I’ve wanted, to walk in such a place with you, on an earth without maps…
The Reconciliation Letter – Persuasion, Jane Austen
I can listen no longer in silence. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant…
You Complete Me – Anna Kanerina, Leo Tolstoy
I’ve always loved you and when you love someone, you love the whole person, just as he or she is and not as you would like them to be.
i, y, c, f, a, f, w, h or if you could forget and forgive what happened…
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine
A few days ago I thought I loved you. But since I last saw you, I feel I love you a thousand times more. All the time I have known you, I adore you more each day. I beg you, let me see some of your faults. Be less beautiful, less graceful, less kind, less good…
Beethoven’s Unsent Letter
Even in bed, my ideas yearn towards you, my immortal beloved, here and there joyfully, then again sadly, awaiting from fate, whether it will listen to us. I can only live, either altogether with you or not at all…
Richard Burton to Elizabeth Taylor
My blind eyes are desperately waiting for a sight of you. You don’t know how fascinatingly beautiful you have always been and how strangely you have acquired an added, special and dangerous loveliness…
Johnny Cash to June Carter
We read each other’s minds. We know what the other wants, without asking. We irritate each other, a little bit. Maybe, sometimes take each other for granted. But I know how lucky I am to share my life, with the greatest woman I ever met. You fascinate and inspire me, influence me for the better. You’re the object of my desire. I love you very much…
Simply, write to express…