PEN- TIED?

Get your ink flowing with inspired lines from famous letters.

Wish you were here

“I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone: I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way.”

— Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Wolf

Breaking a bit of bad news

“I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they’re not alive.”

— Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra

A little encouragement

“As Buddha says: Live like a mighty river. And as the old Greeks said: Live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.”

— Ted Hughes to his son Nicholas