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I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between o… - Petrarch
" "I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying.
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Francesco Petrarca (or Petrarch) (July 20, 1304 – July 19, 1374) was an Italian scholar, poet, and early humanist. Petrarch and Dante are considered the fathers of the Renaissance.
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Vol schaamte dat ik niet genoeg liet horen
over uw schoonheid, vrouwe, denk ik weer
hoe zij mij zozeer trof, die eerste keer,
dat mij geen ander ooit nog zal bekoren.
Maar u te loven is mij niet beschoren:
te ontoereikend blijkt mijn ganzenveer.
Mijn hersens lijken, als ik het probeer,
verlamd te zijn en in ontzag bevroren.
Vaak ving ik aan te zingen, maar moest zwijgen
omdat mijn krachten mij begaven, want
welk stemgeluid kan tot uw hoogte stijgen?
Vaak wilde ik een lofdicht op u maken,
maar schroom heeft steeds mijn pen, mijn hoofd, mijn hand
gedwongen om die pogingen te staken.
(Ike Cialona)
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