VALENTINE'S DAY SPECIAL DELIVERY
Love comes in many forms and is expressed in multiple ways. To celebrate this season of affection we've chosen some of our favorite love letters throughout history.
GEORGIA O’KEEFE TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ
"Dearest — my body is simply crazy with wanting you — If you don't come tomorrow — I don't see how I can wait for you — I wonder if your body wants mine the way mine wants yours — the kisses — the hotness — the wetness — all melting together — the being held so tight that it hurts — the strangle and the struggle.”
OSCAR WILDE TO LORD ALFRED DOUGLAS
"My Own Boy, Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red-rose leaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing. Your slim gilt soul walks between passion and poetry.”
BEETHOVEN TO HIS ‘IMMORTAL BELOVED’
‘Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, 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.’
ZELDA FITZGERALD TO F SCOTT FITZGERALD
"Darling – I love these velvet nights. I’ve never been able to decide … whether I love you most in the eternal classic half-lights where it blends with day or in the full religious fan-fare of mid-night or perhaps in the lux of noon. Anyway, I love you most and you ’phoned me just because you phoned me tonight – I walked on those telephone wires for two hours after holding your love like a parasol to balance me."
PRINCE ALBERT TO QUEEN VICTORIA
"Dearest deeply loved Victoria, I need to tell you that since we left, all my thoughts have been with you at Windsor, and that your image fills my whole soul. Even in my dreams, I never imagined that I should find so much love on earth. How that moment shines for me still when I was close to you, with your hand in mine. Those days flew by so quickly, but our separation will fly equally so."