“I see your eyes, I see how they have wept, and how you come retreating all undone; my heart is touched and shaken at the sight.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.comTagged: Tears, Crying
“For, if any one should dress his poem in images and rhetorical coloring and then, being asked to strip his poem of such dress in order to reveal its true meaning, would not be able to do so— this would be a veritable cause for shame.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.comTagged: Conceptual Writing, Concepts as the True Flesh, Beyond Ornamentation
“The image of her when she starts to smile dissolves within the mind and melts away, a miracle too rich and strange to hold.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.comTagged: Smile, Transcendental, Too Beautiful To Posses, Lost When Found, Sexual/Love Transcendence
“God has graced her with an even greater gift: whoever speaks with her shall speak with Him.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.comTagged: Angelic, Talk To A Lover (And Talk To God)
“How can a mortal body achieve such beauty and such purity?”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.comTagged: Purity, God & Man, Otherworldly Grains
“In her salutation dwelt my bliss, a bliss which often exceeded my capacity to contain it.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.comTagged: Love, Feelings of Love, Overwhelming Joy, Sexual/Love Transcendence
“This most gracious lady of whom I have spoken in the preceding poems came into such widespread favor that, when she walked down the street, people ran to see her. When she passed by someone, such modesty filled his heart that he did not dare to raise his eyes or to return her greeting.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.comTagged: Too Beautiful Too Posses
“While my imagination was wandering like this, I came to the point that I no longer knew where I was.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.comTagged: I No Longer Knew Where I Was, Imagination, Location Distortion, Lost In Your Mind