Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.
Interpretation
Love is about two individuals who recognize and respect each other's individuality while forming a connection.
This quote by Rainer Maria Rilke suggests that love is not about losing one's individuality, but rather about two separate beings coming together to support and respect each other. True love allows for personal space and individuality, while simultaneously fostering a bond of understanding and protection between the two people involved.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a wedding toast to emphasize the importance of individuality in a relationship.
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
You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.
We must fear God out of love, not love Him out of fear.
Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole.
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.
You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.
Wouldst thou learn thy Lord's meaning in this thing? Learn it well: Love was His meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed He thee? Love. Wherefore shewed it He? For Love. Hold thee therein and thou shalt learn and know more in the same. But thou shalt never know nor learn therein other thing without end. Thus was I learned that Love was our Lord's meaning.
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