Don Palmer

“The chief business of man is at any moment to be realizing his powers of intellectual apprehension—to understand, to the utmost of his capacity, things as they are.”
― Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante

“That moment may last for the flash of her smile or for an evening or for six months. But it desires more than such a miracle; it desires the total and voluntary conversion of the lover.”
― Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante

“He was also a poet, and a particular kind of poet; what kind he describes in the Purgatorio (XXIV, 52-63) Io mi son un che, quando Amor mi spira, noto, ed a quel modo che ditta dentro, vo significando. ‘I am one who, when Love breathes in me, note it, and expound it after whatever manner he dictates.”
― Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante

“Eros is often our salvation from a false agape, as agape is from tyrannical eros. Redemption is everywhere exchanged.”
― Charles Williams, The Figure of Beatrice: A Study in Dante