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Paradiso
Dante Alighieri
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“Love, that moves the sun and the other stars”
“The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
“As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.”
“Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.”
“Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.”
“all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.”
“O grace abounding and allowing me to dare to fix my gaze on the Eternal Light, so deep my vision was consumed in it! I saw how it contains within its depths all things bound in a single book by love of which creation is the scattered leaves: how substance, accident, and their relation were fused in such a way that what I now describe is but a glimmer of that Light.”
“From a little spark may burst a flame.”
“All Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is impelled to find its proper station round its Primal Cause. Thus every nature moves across the tide of the great sea of being to its own port, each with its given instinct as its guide.”
“If you, free as you are of every weight had stayed below, then that would be as strange as living flame on earth remaining still." And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.”
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stars, love, fate, theophany, theosis, beatific-vision, sun, italian-medieval-poetry, dante, poetry, grace
