idolization

When you love someone, you end up caring about each and every person they love. When you hate someone, you end up caring about every single person who hates them.

To see things as the poet sees them I must share his consciousness and not attend to it; I must look where he looks and not turn round to face him; I must make of him not a spectacle but a pair of spectacles; in fine, as Professor Alexander would say, I must enjoy him and not contemplate him.