Quotes About Correspondence

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.

It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North - a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies.

I like everything I wear to be in sync.

so mom got the postcard today

like attracts like.

As above, so below. As within, so without. —The Emerald Tablet, circa 3000 BC

MICHAEL BERNARD BECKWITH You can begin right now to feel healthy. You can begin to feel prosperous. You can begin to feel the love that's surrounding you, even if it's not there. And what will happen is the universe will correspond to the nature of your song. The universe will correspond to the nature of that inner feeling and manifest, because that's the way you feel.

As below, so above; and as above so below. With this knowledge alone you may work miracles." THE EMERALD TABLET (circa

To write a letter is to send a message to the future; to speak of the present with an addressee who is not there, knowing nothing about how that person is (in what spirits, with whom) while we write and, above all, later: while reading over what we have written. Correspondence is the utopian form of conversation because it annihilates the present and turns the future into the only possible place for dialogue.

Matter and Spirit mirror one another and reveal the depths of one another.

Tell the sun and stars hello for me.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

a pointed letter from Senator Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson, from Washington State, a very powerful member of Congress and one who took special interest in military matters. Jackson had just returned from an Arctic tour with the air force and he got an idea while he was up there, surveying the intimidating ice pack. Would it be feasible, the senator wondered in his correspondence, to operate a nuclear-powered submarine beneath the ice?

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.

The law of God has a function in our nature. In other words, our nature corresponds to God's law because our nature was made by God. God's law was given according to God's nature, for a lawgiver always enacts a law in accordance with his own being. God created man according to what He is. Therefore, the law given by God and the man created by God correspond to one another.

Chain letters are not illegal. What is illegal is to threaten lives in such letters or solicit money.

He was entirely happy alone. He had his books and his music and his specimens, and that was all he needed. He also carried on a wide correspondence. His friends were far flung across the globe, but none of them intimate.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, I meant to write to you before and thank you for your Christmas cheque, but life in the McBride household is very absorbing, and I don't seem able to find two consecutive minutes to spend at a desk. I

Dear Daddy, Do you observe the postmark?

Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?