beethoven

Apparently, Ludwig Beethoven was a romantic. Writing the greatest love letters of all time. When war and little transportation drifted two people apart letters were there to keep them a live. Very well thought out, beautiful love letters. Here's one of my favorites:

Good morning, on July 7

     Though still in bed, my thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved, now and then joyfully, then sadly, waiting to learn whether or not fate will hear us - 
     I can live only wholly with you or not at all - 
     Yes, I am resolved to wander so long away from you until I can fly to your arms and say that I am really at home with you, and can send my soul enwrapped in you into the land of spirits - 
     Yes, unhappily it must be so - 
     You will be the more contained since you know my fidelity to you. No one else can ever possess my heart - never - never -
     Oh God, why must one be parted from one whom one so loves. 
     And yet my life in V is now a wretched life - 
     Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men - 
     At my age I need a steady, quiet life - can that be so in our connection? 
     My angel, I have just been told that the mailcoach goes every day - therefore I must close at once so that you may receive the letter at once - 
     Be calm, only by a calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together - 
     Be calm - love me - today - yesterday - what tearful longings for you - you - you - my life - my all - farewell. 
     Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. 
     ever thine
     ever mine
     ever ours

L.