like a beautiful woman

Frank Kermode on falling in love with poetry from The Telegraph:

“You may begin by admiring certain discrete poems or even certain lines, but when he goes deep into your mind many things that did not consciously impress you arrive in the more occult part of the memory and establish themselves, eventually, as the real secret and enchanting things while the obvious attractions, which are more or less available to everybody, come to seem superficial.”

Now that's a heroic couplet.