These closing lines of Dante’s Divine Comedy, reached after a long upward journey from the pits to Paradise, leave you floating. And what internal harmony and congruity – your wishes and your will rotating in sync with the same universe-turning wheel.
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‘… but now, just like a wheel
That spins so evenly it measures time
By space, the deepest wish that I could feel
And all my will, were turning with the love
That moves the sun and all the stars above.’Â
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Source: Dante,The Divine Comedy (Paradise Canto 33), trans. Clive James (New York: Liveright Publishing, 2013), p. 526
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