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Inferno Canto 01

...to il mio cammino,
ch'i' fui per ritornar pi? volte v?lto .

He did not disappear from sight, but stayed;
indeed, he so impeded my ascent
that I had often to turn back again.


Temp'era dal principio del mattino,
e 'l sol montava 'n s? con quelle stelle
ch'eran con lui quando l'amor divino 

The time was the beginning of the morning;
the sun was rising now in fellowship
with the same stars that had escorted it


mosse di prima quelle cose belle;
s? ch'a bene sperar m'era cagi...Read more of this...
by Alighieri, Dante


Request to a Year

...flow,drift down the current toward a waterfall 
that struck rock bottom eighty feet below, 

while her second daughter, impeded, 
no doubt, by the petticoats of the day, 
stretched out a last-hope alpenstock 
(which luckily later caught him on his way). 

Nothing, it was evident, could be done; 
And with the artist's isolating eye 
My great-great-grandmother hastily sketched the scene. 
The sketch survives to prove the story by. 

Year, if you have no Mother's day present pla...Read more of this...
by Wright, Judith

The Real Work

...we no longer know which way to go
we have come to our real journey.

The mind that is not baffled is not employed.

The impeded stream is the one that sings....Read more of this...
by Berry, Wendell

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