And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the … - Dante Alighieri

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The hardest part is always the middle of anything because at that point, on some unconscious level, you have to figure out what it's about and why you're doing it and what it means. You don't know that in the beginning.

Dante Alighieri

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

Breath, Escaped, Shore, Turns, Water, Waters

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He listens well who takes notes.

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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

Air, Courage, Dark, Sounds, Voice, Voices

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.

Blow, Formed, Heaven, Light, Minds

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

Eye, Keen, Moon, Placed, Stars

As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.

Dream, Fall, Having, Lost, Powerful, Wakes

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