Love letters express seemingly inexpressible emotions. Have you ever read the volumes of love letters by Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning (their romance is legendary, Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, George Sand, George Bernard Shaw, Anne Bradstreet, Oscar Wilde, and Lewis Carroll.
Romance--in all its complexity--is interwoven into so many works of literature, but love letters are passionate missives by the greatest literary writers (more "real" and more expressive). Have you stopped to imagine their lives and loves (based on those letters)?
Katherine Mansfield wrote: "My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well. I am fast shut up like a little lake in the embrace of some big mountains. If you were to climb up the mountains, you would see me down below, deep and shining - and quite fathomless, my dear. You might drop your heart into me and you'd never hear it touch bottom."
And, then there's her poem (Secret Flowers): "Is love a light for me? A steady light, / A lamp within whose pallid pool I dream / Over old love-books? Or is it a gleam, / A lantern coming towards me from afar / Down a dark mountain? Is my love a star?"
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To extend Valentines Day another day.
