A number of quotes found all about letters and what it means to each individual. These quotes are historical until modern times, and still the a handwritten personal letter shows great meaning, love, affection and it is real, it is a tangible, tactile thing which always means the most.
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In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives. Anatole Broyard
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. Jacques Barzun
Take pains ... to write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one. Thomas Jefferson
In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes within him is shown undisguised in its natural process. Nothing is inverted, nothing distorted, you see systems in their elements, you discover actions in their motives. Samuel Johnson
The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains. Proverbs
You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her. Ada Leverson
To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them. Arthur Schopenhauer
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. Lord Byron
One good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. Svetlana Alliluveya
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient. E. M. Forster
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. Henry David Thoreau
Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment. Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
A letter is a blessing, a great and all-too-rare privilege that can turn a private moment into an exalted experience. Alexandra Stoddard
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. Emily Dickinson
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine. Samuel Butler
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir. Henry Miller
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill. Jane Austen
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts. Nick Bantock
Poets don’t draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. Jean Cocteau
A Letter is a Joy of Earth -
It is denied the Gods. Emily Dickinson
It is denied the Gods. Emily Dickinson
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. Mother Theresa
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From this I think good letters are Good.
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