We were still some way from it, but not so far that I failed to discern in part what noble people occupied that place. - Dante Alighieri

They have no hope of death, and their darkened life is so mean that they are envious of every other fate. Earth allows no mention of them to exist: mercy and justice reject them: let us not talk of them, but look and pass.

But my own wings were not enough for this,
...
Here vigour failed the lofty fantasy:
But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved,

The Love which moves the sun and the other stars.

«¡Virgen y madre, la hija de tu hijo, alta y humilde como no hay criatura, del acuerdo eternal término fijo! »Tú ennobleciste la humanal natura, tanto, que en su grandeza el hacedor no desdeñó encarnar su propia hechura. »Se reanimó en tu vientre el santo amor, y a su calor, en paz eternamente, ha germinado esta divina flor. »Tú eres la meridiana refulgente de caridad aquí, y allá en el suelo