Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel …

Dante Alighieri
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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars. ✨ Divina Commedia Paradiso canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)
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