Good fences make good neighbors

I love Robert Frost, and have been enamored of his work since about the age of 12. I always took this to be a metaphor for knowing where to draw the line for respecting the privacy of your neighbor, friend, etc., no matter how close you are. Knowing where to grant each other their own space makes for the healthiest of relationships. And, yet, for all that, Something there is that doesn't love a wall, that wants it down. That wants the intimacy of friendship or love to have the courage to shed all barriers, if only for a moment. And, of course, that can never be...for without that pause of spacial mystery the sense of intimacy recoils and scurries away. Only natural, only human. They truly are...Mending Walls.