Because, although our love, beginning Hans Andersen, became Grimm, and there are probably even grimmer tests to come, nevertheless I believe that if only we have faith in God and in each other, we shall be permitted to realize all that love is intended to be;
As this morning I think of the Good Friday and the Easter Sunday already implicit in Christmas Day, I think of you.
— Wystan Hugh Auden to Chester Kallman, “Christmas Day, 1941”
