To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ~Phyllis Theroux
Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence. ~Jacques Barzun, God’s Country and Mine, 1954
I am tired, Beloved,
of chafing my heart against
the want of you;
of squeezing it into little inkdrops,
And posting it.
~Amy Lowell, “The Letter”
Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. ~Lord Byron
What a wonderful thing is the mail, capable of conveying across continents a warm human hand-clasp. ~Author Unknown
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. ~Elizabeth Drew
And none will hear the postman’s knock
Without a quickening of the heart.
For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?
~W.H. Auden
The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate. ~William Shenstone
What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can’t reread a phone call. ~Liz Carpenter
Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. ~John Donne
Or don’t you like to write letters. I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something. ~Ernest Hemingway
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment! ~Douglas Jerrold, The Postman’s Budget
If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters. ~Svetlana Alliluyeva
We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ~Sydney Smith
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage. ~Henry David Thoreau, Walden
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ~Emily Dickinson
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. ~Sigmund Freud
