Showing posts with label letters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label letters. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 08, 2010

Quotes on Letter-Writing

Soon I'll be posting on how I go about writing letters.  Hopefully with pictures!  Until then, enjoy some quotes on why letters are so nice. 

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.  ~Lord Byron

And none will hear the postman's knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
~W.H. Auden
 


What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters.  You can't reread a phone call.  ~Liz Carpenter


The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.  ~Svetlana Alliluyeva


Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.  ~Sydney Smith


Grammar is the grave of letters.  ~Elbert Hubbard
 


A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.  ~Pam Brown