Quotes by Drew, Elizabeth

The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the >>

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to dissemina >>

We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by >>

Quotations about Letters

Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good com >>

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a n >>

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave beh >>

How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though it may not be much worth preserving, but a letter! Conveyed by uncertain transportation, over which the sender has no control; committed to a single individual who may be careless or inappreciative; left to the mercy of future generations, of families maybe anxious to suppress the past, of the accidents of removals and house-cleanings, or of mere ignorance. How often it has been by the veriest chance that they have survived at all.

Drew, Elizabeth