Could I have everything for which I long, You would not still endure this banishment way from human nature,” I replied. “Your image – dear, fatherly, benevolent – Being fixed inside my memory, has imbued My heart: when in the fair world, hour by hour You taught me, patiently, it was you who showed The way man makes himself eternal; therefore, The gratitude I feel toward you makes fit That while I live, I should declare it here. And what you tell me of my future, I write.
-Dante Alighieri
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