![]() ![]() … I am with regard to this bliss like a child …" (see “Love Letters: An Anthology of Passion," compiled by Michelle Lovric, Shooting Star Press). The poets and writers perhaps hold the forefront with emotions expressed in letters.įrench novelist Honore de Balzac wrote to the Polish countess Evelina Hanska: “Good heavens I am terrified to see how much my life is yours! With what rapidity it rushes towards your heart. ![]() Creased and faded, thin from the touching of many fingers, these words scrawled across a page are as a breath of life set down by a hand, formed within a heart that has long been stilled. ![]() Many of us are fortunate enough to possess letters written by great-grandparents, perhaps by ancestors who lived in a country we have never seen, or by those who crossed the plains or fought in the Civil War. ![]()
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