"Perhaps a great love is never returned..."
2006-11-18 18:06:01 · 6 answers · asked by __ 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
I got that part. But what is he (Dag Hammarskjold) implying? And would you agree with it?
2006-11-18 18:13:35 · update #1
Unrequited love
2006-11-18 18:09:00 · answer #1 · answered by ☺♥? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Auden (poet who translated Hammarskjold's biography)
was troubled over his turbulent relationship with Chester Kallman, a lover of two decades who in 1963 had taken up separate living quarters in Athens. He was surely thinking about Kallman and expecting his words to be read by Kallman and their more intimate friends.
Swedes familiar with the original say that Auden took large liberties with the Swedish text, misunderstanding some of Hammarskjold's allusions, misconstruing others to inject his own religious and cultural biases and even altering citations in a way calculated to turn Hammarskjold's musings on friendship into Auden's expressions of anxiety at being neglected by a longtime lover.
2006-11-19 02:53:55 · answer #2 · answered by kikisdragon 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say it means that if it IS returned, it won't be "great" anymore, because there is no such thing as a perfect romance. Kind of like the fantasy of the love will always be better than the reality? Just a guess though..
2006-11-19 02:13:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sweetie this ouote here means that u may love someone to the limit a love that's pure and true but maybe the person u love doesn't understand it he/she will only take and never give so much love that u have given him/her maybe not intentionaly but that's what love is the other name of caring and giving ..........
2006-11-19 04:37:16 · answer #4 · answered by nomad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means you can be so in love with someone, but that someone may not be able to love you in the way you love them. Been there, done that!
2006-11-19 02:16:17 · answer #5 · answered by aquari-kat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one will ever love you
2006-11-19 02:13:15 · answer #6 · answered by The Fifth Contender 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋