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.
Dante AlighieriI presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
Dante AlighieriBefore me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri