Dante
https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/paradiso/paradiso-18/
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Le vostre cose tutte hanno lor morte” (All things that you possess, possess their death).
Life like leaves on a tree.. one comes and one goes.
Primum Mobile… the first mover.
Present lives of miserable mortals.
Smaller with less.
Flames of your desire are quenched.
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Curb my mortal passions.
Lifted my longing to its ardent limit.
My sight, becoming pure.
Penetrate the ray of light more deeply.
My vision fades almost completely.
Desire and will moved…
Love moves the sun.
Eternal light
Photography is birthed from the eternal light.
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Old hunger is not sated
Tasted that peace
Joyous state.
Climbing with our eyes from valley to summit.
Gold flame.
Object of his burning fervor.
Gaze more ardently.
No place for sorrow, thirst, or hunger ***
Avoid sorrow, thirst, or hunger ….
No desire would dare to ask for more
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Day by day… my virtue is advancing.
Advance my virtue everyday.
We must guide ourselves
Hunger so long… don’t find the food on earth?
Satisfy your burning longing.
Mind is dulled and smoky.
Much of the world is beneath your feet already
Fed to fill my need.
Like a star in heaven glows within me.
Hope is the anticipation of future glory?
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Dont waste your life chasing little birds.
How to usefully use your life?
Desire to fly
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How does gold taste?
Natural thirst which is never satisfied
Haste goaded me
Divine flame
The power that wills cannot do all things
Swift footed spirits
Infernal limbo .. border
Oh, cursed hunger of gold!
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Go bravely on… like a vessel pushed by good wind.
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Press Further Forward!
‘Sea so cruel’
Human spirit purge itself
Press farther further!
While we live on earth.., we can advance much!
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Wings of desire
Purgatory… not sad with torments,,,but darkness only,,, sighs not wailing.
Maybe most humans today are living in purgatory not hell?
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The horizon holds the day imprisoned
purgatory… those who could have helped more?
Sin through omission,,, What didn’t you do,,, what could you have done more of?
Limbo,.. “virtuous pagans”
How seldom human worth ascends branch to branch
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‘Deplore the dying day’
Dolci note…sweet notes…sweet words
mind..mente
supernal… super natural?
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gentile… genesis // I come into being
Creation
Birth
‘Greedy eyes’
Green wings
‘Motto’
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Read first… then read interpretations later?
‘Manna’
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Try to advance… but you actually retro (go backwards)
Backward goes he who toils most to advance
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Vain: unsubstantial, meaningless… deceptive…leave abandon
‘Gross’…volume-ous
Fame grows dim
Reputation color of gras… comes and goes…
‘Mortal frost’
It is our nature to soar high… fly high!
Dont fall because a little bit of wind!
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Purgatory,l, extreme pity.
We have the power of flight,,, yet we willing fully close our eyes?
Virtue is like an enemy avoided
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In life we should avoid the middle,,, Avoid purgatory. Better to be in hell or heaven? Not the in between place?
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I am more hungering to be satisfied,,,
We are hungry,,, we keep eating,,, yet we’re not satisfied,,, we actually get hungrier?
We possess more,,, yet possess less?
Give vigor to thy feet.
Urge on the sluggards.
Darti,,,forza,.. piede..
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Timidness in our breast
I am hungering to be satisfied
Glutton,… swallow. Too much food. Hankering,… glutton of information ?
What should we feed on?
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The world is blind,… smoke.
Who moves you
What moves you?
Vigor of my legs
Too little vigor,,, problem
Love must be the seed of virtue in your heart.
Love all ***
Excel… excellence.
Grandezza… grandeu
The soul mobiles us,,, moves us.
Soul wakes us into action! ***
Soul is motion spiritual
Soul puts you into motion
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Instinct… bee makes honey!
Creators, make your own honey ***
Innate within you is the power
We have free will ***
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Fashion of a child playing
Excessive glare.
‘I am more hungering to be satisfied’
Disregard earthly things.
Eternal valor
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Give vigor to thy feet.
Urge on the sluggards…
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New thirst,,, still goads on.
A vision new… which bends itself to me?
Novel vision, which bends itself to me.
Don’t fasten eye on earthly things
Straighten thy legs.., and upward raise thee
Unquenched sponge
Wolf… hungering is deep, and never ending
Short span of life, which hurries onto the end.
Greedy sails
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Peace to my hungering
Increase our love