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.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

Go right on and listen as thou goest.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

Deed done is well begun.

Consider that this day ne'er dawns again.