Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
“When it is moving on luxurious wings,
The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.”
Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
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