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Quotation by Michelangelo Buonarroti
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For Inspirationsonnet 15 The Sonnets of Michelangelo, trans. by Elizabeth Jennings (1961)Yes! hope may with my strong desire keep paceRelated Subjects
love (40) women (39) death (17) aging (16) art (14) despair (13) virtue (12) body (11) truth (11) artists (11)
His hope is treacherous only whose love dies
With beauty, which is varying every hour;
But, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power
Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower,
That breathes on earth the air of paradise.
With beauty, which is varying every hour;
But, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power
Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower,
That breathes on earth the air of paradise.
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474–1564), Italian artist. Yes! Hope may with my strong desire keep pace (l. 10–14). . .
Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press.
Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press.
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