When did I first read Rilke's great lines about what makes a good marriage? It was perhaps in C S Lewis's The Four Loves? which we read at Elkins Park for a course or because it was very popular in Catholic circles then? For sure I read it sometime in college. I think I read it the book about notes to a yung poet. Or Letters to a young poet. The passage "It is a question in marriage, to my feeling, not of creating a quick community of spirit by tearing down and destroying all boundaries, but rather a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude, and shows him this confidence, the greatest in his power to bestow."
McGregor cites the passage in his book a number of times. His book on solitude is well researched in a kind of researchy sort of way. hmm am I finding fault?
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