I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Interpretation
Each person in a relationship should respect and protect the other's individuality and personal space.
This quote emphasizes the importance of individuality within a relationship, suggesting that true intimacy involves allowing each person the freedom to be themselves. By protecting each other's solitude, partners can foster a deeper connection based on mutual respect and understanding, rather than dependency or suffocation.
In practice
Using this quote in a wedding speech to highlight the importance of understanding and individuality in marriage.
Spring has again returned. _x000D_ _x000D_ The Earth is like a child that knows many poems._x000D_ _x000D_ Many, O so many. For the hardship_x000D_ _x000D_ of such long learning she receives the prize._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Strict was her teacher. _x000D_ _x000D_ The white in the old man's beard pleases us._x000D_ _x000D_ Now, what to call green, to call blue,_x000D_ _x000D_ we dare to ask: She knows, She knows!
Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
The only journey is the one within.
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.
Treating people the same is not equal treatment if they are not the same.
By the fall of 2007, my last remaining Iraqi friend in Baghdad had left. Once he was gone, my connection to the country and the war began to thin, even as the terror diminished. I missed the improvement that came with the surge, and so, in my nervous system, I never quite registered it.
No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.
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