Love and the gentle heart are one thing, <br />just as the poet says in his verse, <br />each from the other one as well divorced <br />as reason from the mind’s reasoning. <br /> <br />Nature craves love, and then creates love king, <br />and makes the heart a palace where he’ll stay, <br />perhaps a shorter or a longer day, <br />breathing quietly, gently slumbering. <br /> <br />Then beauty in a virtuous woman’s face <br />makes the eyes yearn, and strikes the heart, <br />so that the eyes’ desire’s reborn again, <br />and often, rooting there with longing, stays, <br /> <br />Till love, at last, out of its dreaming starts. <br />Woman’s moved likewise by a virtuous man.<br /><br />Dante Alighieri<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-and-the-gentle-heart/
