Thursday, September 23, 2010

Friendship (chaff and grain together), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Oh the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
     ~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Arthur Rackham - "Emptying our bosoms of their counsel sweet"