<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477534" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What Dante Told Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The golden crescent of the moon<br>was shining through my window<br>when I fell asleep. <br>Soon a soft astral darkness enveloped me<br>bringing along a vivid and strange dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A bright sun was shining in the firmament<br>and I found myself in a Tuscan landscape, <br>hiking on the old Via Apia.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was an early afternoon<br>and suddenly I saw a man in the distance<br>walking toward me from the south.<br>As he came closer I recognized him.<br>It was the poet Dante Alighieri. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh, Sommo Poeta', <br>I accosted him timidly, <br>'Please, tell me, does love really exist, <br>or is it just a romantic figment<br>of our wishful imagination? <br>Can love be really perfect, <br>unconditional and eternal? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dante gave me a long inquisitive look.<br>And then, after a pensive silence<br>he began to speak: <br>'Amor himself once told me', he said, <br>'Ego tanquam centrum circuli, <br>cui simili modo<br>se habent circumferentiae partes: <br>Tu autem non sic! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But what does this mean? ' I asked. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'It means'. he explained, <br>'that I'm as the centre of a circle, <br>to which the parts of the circumference<br>have a similar relation: <br>However, you are not so.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'You forgive me', I said, <br>'but even in translation<br>I don't understand it.' </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Well, it means', he said, <br>'that you shouldn't demand more <br>than what life can afford to you.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477534" data-title="What Dante Told Me de Paul Hartal" data-description="The golden crescent of the moon was shining through my window when I fell asleep. Soon a soft astral darkness enveloped me bringing along a vivid and strange dream. A bright sun was shining in the firmament and I found myself in a Tuscan landsca..."></div> </div> </div>

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