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O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud—what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), Italian poet. "Purgatory," cto. 17, l. 13-18, The Divine Comedy (c. 1307-1321), trans. by Mark Musa (1981).

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