which sets a transcendent value on love, merging the love-object with divinity, is only one element in a developing complex whole. For every dream of unfettered longing a counteractive impulse seems sooner or later to assert itself: the restless scratch of observation, which snags on real things and difficult "wretched ordinariness". Love-language has been pulled differently in different eras between the great generalising symbols--the heart, the rose, the fixed star--and language's opposite capacity: finding words to capture the unique specificity of the loved one, inside her real moment in historyfrom The Guardian: Love in literature
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