Don Palmer

“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 who does not merit—Beatrice? say, ‘salute’, salvation—need not hope to find her. But this is to identify Beatrice with salvation? Yes, and this is the identity of the Image with that beyond the Image. Beatrice is the Image and the foretaste of salvation.”
― 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

“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