Favorite Love excerpts by famous figures

Canela · 07-05-2010, 11:36 PM

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.
All the time I have known you I adore you more each day;
that just shows how wrong was La Bruyere's maxim that love comes all at once.
Everything in nature has its own life and different stages of growth.
I beg you, let me see some of your faults:
be less beautiful, less graceful, lees kind, less good...

--Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821)

Editted to add: What a wonderful thread!

Canela · 07-05-2010, 11:43 PM

To Sarah Helen Whitman:

Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams--that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit.
Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety...
For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you.

--Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

Canela · 07-05-2010, 11:46 PM

About Elinor Frost;

She has been the unspoken half of everything I ever wrote, and both halves of many a thing...

--Robert Frost (1874-1963)

07-05-2010, 11:36 PM	#1
Canela Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Babe, she, her, ella Relationship Status: Well loved… Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 2,375 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,643 Thanked 6,506 Times in 1,694 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	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. All the time I have known you I adore you more each day; that just shows how wrong was La Bruyere's maxim that love comes all at once. Everything in nature has its own life and different stages of growth. I beg you, let me see some of your faults: be less beautiful, less graceful, lees kind, less good... --Napolean Bonaparte (1769-1821) Editted to add: What a wonderful thread!

07-05-2010, 11:43 PM	#2
Canela Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Babe, she, her, ella Relationship Status: Well loved… Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 2,375 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,643 Thanked 6,506 Times in 1,694 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	To Sarah Helen Whitman: Yes, I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams--that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight, half of anxiety... For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you. --Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849)

07-05-2010, 11:46 PM	#3
Canela Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Queer Stone Femme Preferred Pronoun?: Babe, she, her, ella Relationship Status: Well loved… Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Texas Posts: 2,375 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 10,643 Thanked 6,506 Times in 1,694 Posts Rep Power: 21474854	About Elinor Frost; She has been the unspoken half of everything I ever wrote, and both halves of many a thing... --Robert Frost (1874-1963)