“She is the sum of nature's universe.
To her perfection all of beauty tends.”
Dante Alighieri book Vita Nuova
Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter XIV, lines 49–50 (tr. Barbara Reynolds)
“For beauty being the best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.”
The Growth of Love, Sonnet 8.
Poetry
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