Letters Quotes

I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person...

Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was ...

My letters! all dead paper, mute and white!And yet they seem alive and quiveringAgainst my tremulous...

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Her breast is fit for pearls,But I was not a "Diver" - Her brow is fit for thronesBut I have not a c...

Don't you believe I love you? Don't know how I can make you believe. I didn't want to kiss you goodb...

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air...

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in ...

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at...

To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchan...

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and th...

I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringe...

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty ...

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too c...

Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, woul...

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dus...

More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

No revolution is made out of shame. I reply: Shame is already revolution of a kind

Some people write letters, in the library.

Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have h...

People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolutio...

[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has bec...

I am very pleased you like my stories. They are studies in prose, put for Romance's sake into fancif...

it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music...

The awful part of the writing game is that you can never be sure the stuff is any good.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't ...

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

If you do not want to write, at least spit on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope, and send it t...

Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, wri...

I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Sin...

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.

First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian C...

You can live to be old or young, but you'll always have moments when you lose your head.

Nothing and no one in the world could kill the love I have for you. I have surrendered my whole indi...

...How I adore you and want you. You can't know how much...I love belonging to you-- I glory in it, ...

Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the...

The fact about contemporaries is that they're doing the same thing on another railway line: one rese...

But writing is a queer business. If one does anything that is sharp and keep enough to go over the l...

This time, Fusako was able to express herself with fluency and candor. The bold letters she had been...

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t wor...

My correspondence has certainly the charm of variety, and the humbler are usually the more interesti...

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.", 1657)

I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it sho

If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand i...

We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much t...

Calamity with us, is made an excuse for doing wrong. With them, it is erected into a reason for thei...

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your aud...