BY CHAPIN CIMINO What stays with us over the decades: Navigating the grey mists of love and affection by the quirky light of a college friendship.
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True Relations in a False Age – Ralph Waldo Emerson on Friendship
For the former Unitarian minister, relations with other people evoke in us the call towards both truth and tenderness, asking at their highest level not for daintiness, but for the 'roughest courage.
Du Fu – Dreaming of Li Bai
'This parting from the living brings constant pain,' wrote eighth-century Chinese poet Du Fu in an ode to friendship about his separation from Li Bai, who was in exile in the south of the country.
‘The Love Between Angels’ – C.S. Lewis on Friendship
Friendship transcends mere companionship to reach a more elevated goal - that of a shared vision or a common question.