Wednesday, August 17, 2016

a bond between two

"I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other."

(Rainer Maria Rilke)

2 comments:

Aruni RC said...

So very true. And equally rare. But what is life if we don't try to live it by the dictums that find the deepest echo in ourselves.

Different Pen said...

Yes. I'm a cynical idealist - I recognize the difficulty and rarity of it, but someone should at least try.