64/141 If you did not understand that, you did not understand anything about love at all.... Whatever you have to say for yourself, say it without fear. Don't write what you don't mean: that is all. If anything in your letter is false or counterfeit I shall detect it by the ring at once. It is not for nothing, or to no purpose that in my lifelong cult of literature, I have made myself, "Miser of sound and syllable, no less Than Midas of his coinage." Remember also that I have yet to know you. |