Love insists the loved loves back

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

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.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

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

...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.

That with him were, what time the Love Divine