“Full of a yearning thought that makes me stray away from all others.”
Francesco Petrarca Il Canzoniere
Pien d'un vago penser che me desvia
da tutti gli altri.
Canzone 169, lines 1–2
Il Canzoniere (c. 1351–1353), To Laura in Life
“Yet what are all such gaieties to me
Whose thoughts are full of indices and surds?
x2+7x+53
=11/3.”
Four Riddles, no. I
Rhyme? and Reason? (1883)
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