“It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself than I can imagine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.”

Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation (1983)

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Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926

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