Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

The statement treats love not merely as an emotion but as a symbol (“emblem”) of eternity: when one is in love, time seems to lose its normal structure. “Confounds all notion of time” suggests that love collapses past, present, and future into an intensified now; it also “effaces” the story-like framing of life—no clear beginning, no imaginable end. In this view, love offers a temporary experience of the infinite within mortal life, displacing anxiety about origins and endings. The line also implies that love’s power is cognitive as well as emotional: it changes how the mind perceives duration, memory, and mortality, making finitude feel irrelevant or unreal.