Love Is The Source Of Every Virtue

Here Let Dead Poetry Rise Once More To Life.

Love, That All Gentle Hearts So Quickly Know.

And As He, Who With Laboring Breath Has Escaped From The Deep To The Shore, Turns To The Perilous Waters And Gazes.

The Purpose Of The Whole [the Comedy] And Of This Portion [the Paradiso] Is To Remove Those Who Are Living In This Life From The State Of Wretchedness, And To Lead Them To The State Of Blessedness.

Knowledge Comes Of Learning Well Retain'd, Unfruitful Else.