love letters

goodbye 1800's... hello 2012

text messages, emails, voice-mails, facebook messages, twitter feeds.

Wheres the romance in any of that? Wheres the passions? 

not here

does chivalry exist anymore?

is there such thing as such a passionate fire-ee love that a person would sail the seven seas,

fight in wars,

travel across the globe...

just to be with the person they love?

I like to think that somewhere, in someone it does.

What happened to the romantic love letters written from the lover across the sea...

today, it may be considered cheesy, but back then it was passion, and love. 

I usually am not a very romantic, lovey-dovey person. But lately I've been reading some

love letters 

from ages ago. 

The feelings that are expressed are so romantic, tragic and great all at the same time. 

Gustave Flaubert

to his wife on August 15, 1846

I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy.  I want to gorge yu with all the joys of the flesh, so that you faint and die.  I want you to be amazed by me, and to confess to
yourself that you had never even dreamed of such transports...  When you are old, I want you to recall those few hours, I want your dry bones to quiver with joy when you think of them.

Victor Hugo 

to Adele Foucher, 1821

My dearest,

When two souls, which have sought each other for,

however long in the throng, have finally found each other ...a union, fiery and pure as they themselves are... begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.This union is love, true love, ... a religion, which deifies the loved one, whose life comes from devotion and passion, and for which the greatest sacrifices are the sweetest delights.This is the love which you inspire in me... Your soul is made to love with the purity and passion of angels; but perhaps it can only love another angel, in which case I must tremble with apprehension.

Yours Forever,

 

oh.. to be in love. 

someday