Quotes About Letters

I remember the longing inside my head, [her] beautiful letters, mine, my fingers tracing the ridges of consonants, questions and postscripts littering margins, uncontainable form, the page a stage for candor. To know another is the terrible work of love, is it not? — Jennifer Chang, from "In the Middle of My Life," The American Poetry Review (September/October 2021, vol. 50, no.5)

The ascending spiral, one of the central images of early American letters and employed especially by Emerson, is probably an unconscious piece of every American's personal mythology. Its shorthand name is progress.

The earth is God's book but in our blindness, we have obliterated letters so we may say God has abandoned us. It is we who are illiterate.

La soddisfazione gli affinava il tiro, le sue lettere sarebbero state altrettante armi destinate a colpire tutti quelli che non avevano saputo credere in lui. Provava un piacere feroce a esistere. Quella sera stava bene, è vero, ma il giorno dopo sarebbe stato ancora meglio facendo del male agli altri. Vivere è un po' uccidere

flags would be their final memory of loved ones. "Did Glen have any news?" Carolyn asked. Though the censors would not let them mention anything in their letters, men at the front sometimes heard about planned

Zachary winched a few more letters onto his last name and declared himself king of the Z aficionados.

I FEEL AS THOUGH I AM EATING the alphabet. Twenty-six courses of letters, each with its own distinctive flavor. It is inevitable that some letters will taste delicious, others not so much. Some will have a delicate flavor, others will be more like a hearty peasant stew.

The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?

With practice, you began to recognize entire words by themselves. C-A-T became simply cat, thanks to a mental representation that encoded the pattern of the letters in that word and associated that pattern with both the sound of the word and the idea of a small, furry animal that meows and often doesn't get along well with dogs. Along

Gigantesca luna y un viento de las montañas, profundo, acompaño la comprensión del momento: que todo en esta vida son letras.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

I don't get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.

I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

My husband wrote me love letters while I was on location in Canada and pregnant. They turned into being about food, and it turned it into a cookbook. He called it 'The Tuscan Cookbook for the Pregnant Male.' It was kind of genius. When I took it a book agent, he was like, 'Men don't buy cookbooks.'

At present I answer about 100 letters a month, and read 300 emails.

I am a diehard romantic, and I shamelessly accept that. I love writing letters.

I get wonderful letters from kids and teachers. I must have the best readers in the world.

los investigadores que estudian esta tendencia general a valorar más aquellas entidades ligadas al propio yo (denominada «egoísmo implícito») han averiguado que los sujetos prefieren no solo a las personas, sino también los productos comerciales (galletas, chocolates, tés) cuyos nombres comparten letras con los suyos.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i's.

At my house, when a missing pawn shows up in the Scrabble tiles, it counts as an extra blank.

There's ither poets, much your betters, Far seen in Greek, deep men o' letters, Hae thought they had ensur'd their debtors, A' future ages; Now moths deform in shapeless tatters, Their unknown pages.

There is a wonderful line in one of Cicero's letters to Atticus in which he describes moving into a property and says: I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.