How does a love song make tenderness visible? A feeling has no color of its own, no particular landscape, and no shape that can be photographed. Yet poetry regularly turns affection into sunlight, longing into wind, hope into flowers, and intimacy into the warmth of an embrace.
This transformation is one of the essential pleasures of romantic language. Instead of merely announcing that someone is in love, the poet creates a world through which love can be experienced.
