“To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.”
The Universe - Sex in Space (2008)
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Fruits of Solitude (1682), Part I
Context: Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love. What we Love, we'll Hear; what we Love, we'll Trust; and what we Love, we'll serve, ay, and suffer for too. If you love me says our Blessed Redeemer) keep my Commandments. Why? Why then he'll Love us; then we shall be his Friends; then he'll send us the Comforter; then whatsover we ask, we shall receive; and then where he is we shall be also, and that for ever. Behold the Fruits of Love; the Power, Vertue, Benefit and Beauty of Love! Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another.
“By common consent, Wolfram is the greatest medieval poet before Dante.”
Victor Duruy (trans. E. H. & M. D. Whitney) The History of the Middle Ages (New York: H. Holt, 1891) p. 338.
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“The starlight of heaven above us shall quiver
As our souls flow in one down eternity’s river.”
The Welcome.
“The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us”
Epigram on Goldsmith’s Retaliation. Vol. ii. p. 157. Compare: "God sendeth and giveth both mouth and the meat", Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557); "God sends meat, and the Devil sends cooks", John Taylor, Works, vol. ii. p. 85 (1630).
“As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright,
And made a sunshine in the shady place.”
Canto 3, stanza 4
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book I
“As long as you still experience the stars as something "above you", you lack the eye of knowledge.”