so love, which is a spiritual motion
fills the trapped soul, and it can never rest
short of the thing that fills it with devotion
- Dante (Alighieri), The Purgatorio, Canto XVIII, lines 30-33
I was struck by this in reading from The Purgatorio this morning. Virgil is explaining what all-encompassing Love is to Dante, and it is beautiful to watch the growth of his understanding and character--as I do myself while reading.
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