Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Affection

"Anyone who brings up someone else's son becomes specially devoted: there are no rights, no social claims - nothing but ties of affection. Affection cannot prove itself with a legal document; nor does it wish to. All it can do is love with doubled intensity, because it owns so uncertainly."
The Living and the Dead by Rabindranath Tagore
(trans. by William Radice)