Handwritten love letters to give you Valentine’s day inspiration
Technologies have made us closer to our dearest people, friends, and colleagues, providing the opportunity to talk to them easily even when we are on different continents. Instant messages, photos and videos are transmitted in no time, calls and video chats allow to hear and see each other anytime we want. In addition, your data in messengers is better protected from strangers, especially when you use end-to-end encrypted communication. We see when a contact is online, when a message is read, we can shift from messaging to a video chat and back. It’s useful, and over the past few years, we became accustomed to this way of communication.
However, online messages lack the personal touch that letters written on paper used to deliver. A kiss emoji is so different from a lipstick kiss mark on a letter. Similarly, a picture of a flower, even stunningly beautiful, cannot be compared to the delivery of a real flower into the hands of the significant other. Sending handwritten letters and postcards today is a romantic gesture, and these signs of true affection are appreciated.
As Valentine’s day is so close, we have collected several letters written on paper by renown politicians, writers, musicians, and other public personalities. We hope they will inspire you to write tender and witty letters to your loved ones.
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine du Beauharnais
“Since I left you, I have been constantly depressed. My happiness is to be near you. Incessantly I live over in my memory your caresses, your tears, your affectionate solicitude. The charms of the incomparable Josephine kindle continually a burning and a glowing flame in my heart…. I thought that I loved you months ago, but since my separation from you I feel that I love you a thousand fold more. Each day since I knew you, have I adored you more and more. ”
John Keats to Fanny Brawne
“My dearest Girl,
This moment I have set myself to copy some verses out fair. I cannot proceed with any degree of content. I must write you a line or two and see if that will assist in dismissing you from my Mind for ever so short a time. Upon my Soul I can think of nothing else — The time is passed when I had power to advise and warn you against the unpromising morning of my Life — My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you — I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again — my Life seems to stop there — I see no further. You have absorb’d me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving — I should be exquisitely miserable without the hope of soon seeing you. I should be afraid to separate myself far from you. ”
Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo
“I love you because I love you, because it would be impossible for me not to love you. I love you without question, without calculation, without reason good or bad, faithfully with all my heart and soul and every faculty. Believe it, for it is true. If you cannot believe, I being at your side, I will make a drastic effort to force you to do so.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Fitzgerald
“Darling heart ambition enthusiasm and confidence I declare everything glorious this world is a game and while I feel sure of you love everything is possible I am in the land of ambition and success and my only hope and faith is that my darling heart will be with me soon.”
Richard Nixon to Pat Nixon
“Every day and every night I want to see you and be with you,” he wrote. “Yet I have no feeling of selfish ownership or jealousy. In fact I should always want you to live just as you wanted — because if you didn’t then you would change and wouldn’t be you. Let’s go for a long ride Sundays; let’s go to the mountains weekends; let’s read books in front of fires; most of all let’s really grow together and find the happiness we know is ours.”
Jimi Hendix to an unknown woman
“little girl…
Happiness is within you…. So unlock the chains from your heart and let yourself grow like the sweet flower you are…
I know the answer — Just spread your wings and set yourself FREE”
Johnny Cash to June Carter Cash
“Happy Birthday Princess.
We get old and get used to each other. We think alike. We read each other’s minds. We know what the other one wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted.
But once in a while, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. You’re the object of my desire, the #1 earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much.
Happy Birthday Princess. ”
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