A picture of the sun
How to convey the impossibility of a person's love being requited!
'He could no more stir in her the emotions...
Of love and kindness
Jane Eyre boils down to two powerful essential needs: to give and receive love amply, and to have the liberty...
Like morning on the flowers
Such a gentle, loving look this implies, but in the end neither of the two lovers wants to take the...
All you need is love
Another description by Steinbeck's widow of yet another of his writing spaces, which comprised mostly rooms but some other curious...
Who loves you best, whom you love best …
The sweet playfulness of Jane's relationship with Rochester, and, finally, the happy ending.
'That depends on circumstances, sir -...
Spinning your way home
Here E.B. White (1899-1985) writes a poem in a letter to Katherine, depicting a spider's spinning a thread-ladder to find...
A packet of yellow love letters
What happened to all those love letter in a private drawer, sent and kept over centuries when this was the...
Pencil and paper
Steinbeck wrote with pencil on the ubiquitous American yellow pad. Computers and word-processing came too late for him, and so...
In celebration of later love
George Eliot noticed a bias in poets' treatment of love, a tendency to say many fine things about its first...
Bandy-legged mongrel
This is from a wonderful fictional account of the (real) first dog sent into space by the Soviets. Her life...
As a conqueror enters a surprised city
For Valentine's Day, a heart-warming account by the first biographer of the poet George Herbert on how he met his...
Lasting love, changing love
A touching description of how love can be constant and yet changing. This is a long standing and quietly happy...
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