Happy Valentine’s Day!
Yes, it is the day for love, romance, kisses and most importantly… Chocolate! 😀
As it is Valentine’s I thought (along with most other bloggers) that a romance themed post is in order. I may be single but I still appreciate a good bit of romance and love, so why shouldn’t I enjoy it to?
I think the love letter has become greatly undervalued. Receiving a handwritten letter in general is such an amazing feeling, but what happened to love letters?
So, today I want to share with you one of my favourite famous love letters, maybe it will inspire you to write your own to someone you love 🙂
‘My angel, my all, my very self
We shall surely see each other soon; moreover, today I cannot share with you the thoughts I have had during these last few days touching my own life –
If our hearts were always close together, I would have none of these.
My heart is full of so many things to say to you – ah – there are moments when I feel that speech amounts to nothing at all Cheer up – remain my true, my only treasure, my all as I am yours.
Ah, wherever I am, there you are also
Much as you love me – I love you more
Oh God – so near! so far!
Is not our love truly a heavenly structure, and also as firm as the vault of heaven?
my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us –
I can live only wholly with you or not at all
No one else can ever possess my heart – never – never –
Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves.
Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together –
Be calm – love me – today – yesterday – what tearful longings for you – you – you – my life – my all – farewell.
Oh continue to love me – never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours
Your faithful Ludwig’
–Ludwig von Beethoven
And there you have it. Please excuse me whilst I go off and swoon somewhere…
Do you have a favourite quote about love? Or excerpt from a love letter? Have you ever received or sent a love letter?
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I have a favorite movie–Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Have you seen it? It’s fraught with famous quotes, makes some of its own, and gets down deep to a place I find a lot of movies fail to go. Maybe it’s because of the subject–a doomed tragic love that is nonetheless beautiful. Here’s one of my favorites:
Clementine: This is it, Joel. It’s going to be gone soon.
Joel: I know.
Clementine: What do we do?
Joel: Enjoy it.
I have seen it, it really pulled at my heart strings! But it was a great movie.
Thanks for posting the quote 🙂 Good to share the love today 😀
That’s beautiful!
It is, it’s one of my faves, wish I would get something like that through my mail 😀
Thanks for reading and commenting 🙂
What a beautiful letter! It makes me want to research him and learn more about his life. Thank you for sharing!
Who knew he had beautiful words as well as music in him? 😀
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My favourite quote about love is – “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends”
Anyway, happy Valentine’s day and whew, yes your word count is a thousand or so behind but in what? one and a half months or so you’ve written more than 50,000 words … and written a post every other day. You’re doing just great 😀
Thanks for the encouragement 😀 Just feel so knocked back by this cold, it makes not meeting targets feel like the end of the world!
Lovely quote, thanks for sharing it and reading 🙂
I wrote a long wedding proposal poem. I presented it to her while exploring the Secret Gardens at Blenheim Palace. It was coupled with a champagne picnic that we enjoyed on one of the great lawns.
That’s very sweet, can’t think of many people who would think to do that for a proposal!
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Man, Beethoven has some game.
Major game! I’d have married him if he sent me something like that 😀
Me, too! 🙂
Swoon, indeed! My husband wrote my a love letter this V day, and it works like a charm. I’m a sucker for words on paper! 🙂
Who wouldn’t be a sucker for words on paper? There really is something so amazingly romantic about it, would definitely swoon into the arms of anyone who wrote me a love letter!
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