What can I ever know about your soul? Of your temptations, your opportunities, your struggles? How can I trust wholeheartedly in what I do not see and can not hear? So many questions in my mind. Did I love too much or love too little? …
Regardless of your answers, these things i know. I had [...]
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Evoking sensations in the absence of touch.
Posted in love letters on October 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lord Jimenez to his Love
Posted in love letters on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hola Hermosura:
I had a dream; I will try to describe it as better as I can with my poor English.
There were just a few hours to the rising sun, morning. The sky was full of stars, fat, filled, swollen stars, full of night. The moon was out for a while and then was gone. Was [...]
Honore de Balzac to Evelina Hanska
Posted in love letters, tagged balzac, hanska, love letter on December 8, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sunday 19th
My beloved angel,
I am nearly mad about you, as much as one can be mad: I cannot bring together two ideas that you do not interpose yourself between them.
I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I [...]
Lord Byron to Teresa Guiccioli
Posted in love letters, tagged , amor mio, lord byron, love letter, teresa guiccioli on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
English Romantic poet and satirist, Byron was brought up in poverty in Scotland. At the age of 10 he inherited his great-uncle’s title and property, and moved to Newstead Abbey, England. Byron was educated at [...]
Lord Byron to Caroline Lamb
Posted in love letters, tagged , caroline lamb, forbidden love, heaven, lord byron, love letter on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) was one of England’s most notorious lovers (and arguably womanizers). A world-famous poet by the age of 24, he had a brief but extremely passionate affair with Lady Caroline Lamb.
Pressured by Caroline’s mother (who herself may have had affections for Byron), he used the opportunity to put an end to [...]
To Josephine
Posted in love letters, tagged dolce amor, emperor, josephine, kisses, love letter, napolean on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
In addition to being a brilliant military mind and feared ruler, Napolean Bonaparte (1763 – 1821) was a prolific writer of letters. He reportedly wrote as many as 75,000 letters in his lifetime, many of them to his beautiful wife, Josephine, both before and during their marriage. This letter, written just prior to their 1796 [...]
Immortal Beloved
Posted in love letters, tagged beethoven, beloved, faithful, immortal, love letter, passion on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), one of history’s most famous and mysterious composers died at the age of 57 with one great secret. Upon his death, a love letter was found among his possessions. It was written to an unknown woman who Beethoven simply called his ‘Immortal Beloved.’
The world may never put a face with this [...]
