18.4.05

A Quote

For when you come to think of it, the only way to love a person is not, as the stereotyped Christian notion is, to coddle them and bring them soup when they are sick, but by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish. - Brenda Ueland

The quote above was snatched from a blog I read (birty.us). It makes a very good point. Unless that is, you are sick and in need of soup. Then it makes a bad point.