An ardent lover often makes a cold friend.
Many attempt to harvest what was never planted.
Realism absorbs the ideal by adding a few small imperfections. Example: it paints a few specks of mud on the white gown of the Lady in the Garden.
Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.
Always late: thus I make you the prisoner of my freedom.
Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.