Author: Elizabeth (---.SPACEY.NET)
Date: 02-07-02 07:44
After I wrote this sonnet there appeared to me a miraculous vision in which I saw things that made me
resolve to say no more about this blessed one until I should be capable of writing about her in a nobler
way. -Dante on his inspiration for The Divine Comedy, after falling short of Beatrice's splendor in the
Vita NuovaBeauty is a primeval phenomenen, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is
visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature itself. -Goethe, April 18,
1827Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet
beautiful.
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