Big Ideas · 28 · The Poet

An I–Thou encounter

In the Song, each lover enlarges the other: he urges her to rise; she awakens him. Their love inspires rather than consumes.

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Love causes the human world to bloom, just as nature forms a canopy for the couple.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 440

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