What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

I came alive when I started loving you.

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.

Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.