But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, 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.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

He listens well who takes notes.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.