The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

The secret of getting things done is to act!

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

No one thinks of how much blood it costs.