Canto XI quotes
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O sol che sani ogne vista turbata,tu mi contenti sì quando tu solvi,che, non men che saver, dubbiar m'aggrata.
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O Sun, that healest all distempered vision,Thou dost content me so, when thou resolvest,That doubting pleases me no less than knowing!
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lines 91–93 (tr. Longfellow).
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Che l'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,Segue, come il Maestro fa il discente,Sì che vostr'arte a Dio quasi è nipote.
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That your art follows her so far as it can, as the disciple does the master, so that your art is as it were grandchild of God.
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lines 103–105 (tr. Charles Eliot Norton).