“I am barren of words. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing”
Source: Lover Eternal
“You who hear in scattered rhymes the sound of those sighs with which I nourished my heart during my first youthful error, when I was in part another man from what I am now.”
Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono
di quei sospiri ond'io nudriva 'l core
in sul mio primo giovenile errore
quand'era in parte altr'uom da quel ch'i' sono.
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Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
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Voi ch'ascoltate in rime sparse il suono di quei sospiri ond'io nudriva 'l core in sul mio primo giovenile errore quand'era in parte altr'uom da quel ch'i' sono.
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
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