If You Follow Your Natural Bent;you Will

If Thou Follow Thy Star, Thou Canst Not Fail Of Glorious Heaven.

As The Geometer Intently Seeks To Square The Circle, But He Cannot Reach, Through Thought On Thought, The Principle He Needs, So I Searched That Strange Sight.

Open Your Mind To What I Shall Disclose, And Hold It Fast Within You; He Who Hears, But Does Not Hold What He Has Heard, Learns Nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

There, Pride, Avarice, And Envy Are The Tongues Men Know And Heed, A Babel Of Depsair

Like The Lark That Soars In The Air, First Singing, Then Silent, Content With The Last Sweetness That Satiates It, Such Seemed To Me That Image, The Imprint Of The Eternal Pleasure.