"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls"
About this Quote
The imagery does the heavy lifting. “Winds of the heavens” turns separation into circulation, something cleansing and impersonal that no partner controls. It’s a quiet shot across the bow of jealousy and surveillance, long before we had read receipts and location sharing. If the wind can “dance between you,” then intimacy isn’t a sealed room; it’s an open-air practice. The line “make not a bond of love” is the sharpest blade in the bouquet. A bond is what you put on prisoners and assets. Gibran warns that love curdles when it becomes a mechanism of restraint.
Then he offers a better metaphor: “a moving sea between the shores of your souls.” Shores imply distinctness; the sea implies connection without erasure. Movement is the point. A sea can be calm or violent, but it stays alive by refusing stasis. Written in the early 20th century by a Lebanese-American poet steeped in mysticism, this is Gibran translating spiritual freedom into domestic advice: if you want devotion that lasts, stop trying to own it.
Quote Details
| Topic | Love |
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| Source | "On Marriage", in The Prophet (Kahlil Gibran, 1923) — passage beginning "Let there be spaces in your togetherness..." (commonly quoted from the 'On Marriage' chapter). |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Gibran, Kahlil. (2026, January 15). But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-let-there-be-spaces-in-your-togetherness-and-32312/
Chicago Style
Gibran, Kahlil. "But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-let-there-be-spaces-in-your-togetherness-and-32312/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/but-let-there-be-spaces-in-your-togetherness-and-32312/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.








