Elizabeth Gilbert Quote
The poet Jack Gilbert (no relation, sadly for me) wrote that marriage is what happens between the memorable. He said that we often look back on our marriages years later, perhaps after one spouse has died, and all we can recall are the vacations, and emergencies--the high points and low points. The rest of it blends into a blurry sort of daily sameness. But it is that very blurred sameness, the poet argues, that comprises marriage. Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over to thousand indistinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody--so utterly well knows and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?
The poet Jack Gilbert (no relation, sadly for me) wrote that marriage is what happens between the memorable. He said that we often look back on our marriages years later, perhaps after one spouse has died, and all we can recall are the vacations, and emergencies--the high points and low points. The rest of it blends into a blurry sort of daily sameness. But it is that very blurred sameness, the poet argues, that comprises marriage. Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over to thousand indistinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the worth of becoming that familiar to somebody--so utterly well knows and so thoroughly ever-present that you become an almost invisible necessity, like air?
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