For much of my adult life from 16 on, my conception of the world was largely Romantic-based: civilized, spiritual, and highly imaginative. In particular, the language and imagery of my love poems, too. To a large extent, this orientation was fostered by exposure to English Romantic poets in my teens and growing up in the 1960s.
Wordsworth described that time best:
“We who were strong in love! Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!”