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Who is "the poet" in Works of Love? What does this character symbolize or represent?

Contemporáneos de Cristo Kierkegaard always thought a poet is someone who doesn't really understand love because he is focusing too much on the aesthetic of love and the suffe…moreKierkegaard always thought a poet is someone who doesn't really understand love because he is focusing too much on the aesthetic of love and the suffering that leads this kind of love. But when we talk about Christian Love as in this book, "The poet" will not even understand it, it's too much for them, because God's Love is beyond poet's imagination, so that's the reason why Kierkegaard used to talk not so kindly about poets in general.(less)

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In which book and page can Kierkegaard's "love is all, it gives all, and it takes all" be located?

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