if everything happens that can't be done Versions of Reality Quotes

This line sets up the world of the rest of the poem. Literally, everything is happening that can't be done. The world of this poem is full of impossibilities that have become doable, and which are actually happening, which opens up all kinds of doors for us readers.

Anything old, being everything new? This would be like your grandfather becoming a young boy again, or your old faded blue jeans becoming suddenly crisp and bright again. Sounds pretty impossible and otherworldly to us. But, then again, the world of this poem is a world of hyperbole and metaphor, so maybe our speaker is comparing the feeling of love he has to the miracle of the impossible happening.

Remember, nothing is impossible, so these lines could be literal as well as figurative. The world could actually be just a leaf, and a tree could be just a bough. Big can be small, and vice versa.

Now we make these impossibilities that are happening personal. Because our speaker is in love, he feels that his possessions are his love's possessions and, possibly, that his love is right there with him even when far away.

It seems like the force that makes the impossible happen in this poem is love. Maybe our speaker was a big skeptic, who thought he could never love someone forever. But then he met this person, and found that eternal love was possible because love made it possible.