Another former President whose romantic writings are worth discussing: Ronald Reagan
“the biggest thing is actually I don’t desire to be without your for the following twenty years, or 40, or nonetheless most you can find. I’ve become really regularly being happier and that I love you a whole lot certainly.”
8. Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas
In Irish poet and playwright Oscar Wilde satisfied Lord Alfred aˆ?Bosieaˆ? Douglas, a then-21-year-old Oxford undergraduate and talented poet, who does turned out to be the authoraˆ™s muse and partner. In reality, it was during their own affair that Wilde penned SalomA© in addition to four fantastic plays which, even today, would be the foundation of his literary history. Sadly her commitment was not acknowledged at that time while the duo continued their particular event in secret. Wilde’s surviving letters, luckily, make the enduring power of their like sharp.
aˆ?Everyone was mad with me for returning to you, however they do not understand all of us. Personally I think it is only with you that i could do anything at all,aˆ? (more…)