The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.

As once I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.

E chi avesse voluto conoscere Amore, fare lo potea mirando lo tremare de li occhi miei.

Love rules me. It determines what I ask.

Within her presence, I had once been usedto feeling—trembling—wonder, dissolution;but that was long ago. Still, though my soul,now she was veiled, could not see her directly,by way of hidden force that she could move,I felt the mighty power of old love.

He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

Love that moves the sun and the other stars.