I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

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

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.