"A letter is the soul's portrait. It is not a cold image, with its stagnation, so remote from love; it lends itself to all our emotions; turn by turn it grows animated, it enjoys, it rests"
— Laclos, Pierre (-Ambrose-François) Choderlos de (1741-1803)
Work Title
Date
1782
Metaphor
"A letter is the soul's portrait. It is not a cold image, with its stagnation, so remote from love; it lends itself to all our emotions; turn by turn it grows animated, it enjoys, it rests"
Metaphor in Context
A letter is the soul's portrait. It is not a cold image, with its stagnation, so remote from love; it lends itself to all our emotions; turn by turn it grows animated, it enjoys, it rests
Categories
Provenance
Reading Ruth Perry's Women, Letters, and the Novel (128).
Date of Entry
07/08/2005
Date of Review
04/26/2007
