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“As soon as that majestic force,
which had already pierced me once
before I had outgrown my childhood, struck my eyes,
I turned to my left with the confidence
a child has running to his mamma
when he is afraid or in distress
to say to Virgil: 'Not a single drop of blood
remains in me that does not tremble--
I know the signs of the ancient flame.'
But Virgil had departed, leaving us bereft:
Virgil, sweetest of fathers,
Virgil, to whom I gave myself for my salvation.
And not all our ancient mother lost
could save my cheeks, washed in the dew,
from being stained again with tears.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
which had already pierced me once
before I had outgrown my childhood, struck my eyes,
I turned to my left with the confidence
a child has running to his mamma
when he is afraid or in distress
to say to Virgil: 'Not a single drop of blood
remains in me that does not tremble--
I know the signs of the ancient flame.'
But Virgil had departed, leaving us bereft:
Virgil, sweetest of fathers,
Virgil, to whom I gave myself for my salvation.
And not all our ancient mother lost
could save my cheeks, washed in the dew,
from being stained again with tears.”
― The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Volume 2: Purgatorio
“the Love that moves the sun and all the other stars.”
― Paradise
― Paradise
“This is the weather the cuckoo likes,
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly”
― The Complete Poems
And so do I;
When showers betumble the chestnut spikes,
And nestlings fly”
― The Complete Poems
“More writers fail from lack of character than from lack of intelligence.”
― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
“Oh tarnish late on Wenlock Edge,
Gold that I never see;
Lie long high snowdrifts in the hedge
That will not shower on me.”
― A Shropshire Lad
Gold that I never see;
Lie long high snowdrifts in the hedge
That will not shower on me.”
― A Shropshire Lad
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