Famous Love Letter Excerpts
Alex Turner to Alexa Chung: “My mouth hasn't shut up about you since you kissed it. The idea that you may kiss it again is stuck in my brain, which hasn't stopped thinking about you since, well, before any kiss.”
Johnny Cash to June Carter: “You’re the object of my desire, the #1 earthly reason for my existence.”
Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine Bonaparte: “A few days ago I thought I loved you; but since I last saw you I feel I love you a thousand times more.”
Orson Welles to Rita Hayworth: “I suppose most of us are lonely in this big world, but we must fall tremendously in love to find it out.”
Patti Smith to Robert Mapplethorpe: “The other afternoon, when you fell asleep on my shoulder, I drifted off, too. But before I did, it occured to me looking around at all of your things and your work and going through years of work in my mind, that of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.”
Sullivan Ballou to Sarah Ballou: “If the dead can come back to this earth, and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you in the garish day, and the darkest night amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours always.”
Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf: “Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this—but oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. and I don’t really resent it.”
Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf: “I miss you even more than i could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. So this letter is just really a squeal of pain.”
Vladimir Nabokov to Vera Nabokov: “How strange that although my life’s work is moving a pen over paper, I don’t know how to tell you how I love, how I desire you.”
[Prompt Calender: December 7th, National Letter Writing Day]
