What love commences can be finished by God alone.
Another story must begin!
One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water.
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.