“Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind,
That from the nunnery
Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind,
To war and arms I fly.”
To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 1.
Lucasta (1649)
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O fortunati miei dolci martiri!
S'impetrerò che giunto seno a seno,
L'anima mia nella tua bocca io spiri.
Canto II, stanza 35 (tr. Fairfax)
Gerusalemme Liberata (1581)
Obituary, Daily Telegraph,London, 20th May 2015

“What, O Kunti, am I to give thee? Tell me what is in thy heart.”
Vayu to Kunti when Kunti invoked him.
The Mahabharata/Book 1: Adi Parva/Section CXXIII
Dido and Aeneas (opera; music by Henry Purcell)

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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 513.

Variant: Science tells me God must exist.
My mind tells me I'll never understand God.
My heart tells me I'm not meant to.
[Vittoria Vetra]
Source: Angels & Demons