“It is the east, and Juliet is the sun,” Romeo tells Juliet, for Juliet and the sun are equally dazzling to him, they are alike in that both are a dazzling light. Omoioma, atos: Plato uses those words in Phaedrus, and he posits that the amorous soul notices an omoioma, an imitation of celestial things in the things of this world that resemble them …

Julia Kristeva (“Eidos, Omoiosis, Analogia” from The Kristeva Reader, ed. Kelly Oliver)