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You, my friend, by a strange confusion of arguments, try to dissuade me from continuing my chosen work by urging, on the one hand, the hopelessness o… - Petrarch
" "You, my friend, by a strange confusion of arguments, try to dissuade me from continuing my chosen work by urging, on the one hand, the hopelessness of bringing my task to completion, and by dwelling, on the other, upon the glory which I have already acquired. Then, after asserting that I have filled the world with my writings, you ask me if I expect to equal the number of volumes written by Origen or Augustine. No one, it seems to me, can hope to equal Augustine. Who, nowadays, could hope to equal one who, in my judgment, was the greatest in an age fertile in great minds? As for Origen, you know that I am wont to value quality rather than quantity, and I should prefer to have produced a very few irreproachable works rather than numberless volumes such as those of Origen, which are filled with grave and intolerable errors.
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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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hatalar ve düşler ve soluk görüntüler
vardı çevresinde zafer takının
ve sahte inançlar kapıların üzerinde
ve kaygan umut ediş merdivenlerde
ve zararlı kazanç ve yararlı zarar
ve basamaklar, en çok çıkanın en aşağı indiği;
yorucu dinlenme ve dinlendirici eziyet,
parlak onursuzluk ve karanlık ve kara utku,
aldatan bağlılık ve değişmeyen aldanma,
tetikte delilik ve âtıl akıl;
açık yollardan gittiğimiz, dar yollardan
büyük güçlükle kaçtığımız hapis;
hızlı inişler girmek için, çıkmak için yokuşlar;
içeride, fırtınalı bir kargaşa, iç içe geçmiş
kesin elemler ve belirsiz sevinçlerle.
asla kaynamamıştır vulcano, lipari ya da ischia,
stromboli ya da etna böyle azgın öfkeyle:
bu tehlikeli oyuna atılan, pek az seviyordur kendini.
böyle karanlık ve dar kafese
kapatıldık, orada ağardı saçlarım
kısa sürede ve değişti genç çehrem;
ve onca zaman, hep özgürlüğü düşleyip,
ruhumu, büyük arzunun hazır ve hafif kıldığı,
avutuyordum geçmiş şeyleri görerek.
bakıyordum, güneşteki kara dönmüş ben,
birçok ünlü ruha, karanlık hapsin içinde,
kısa sürede uzun resme bakar gibi,
ayak ileri gider hani, göz geriye döner.
(aşkın utkusu iii, 139-165)
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I closed the book*, angry with myself that I should still be admiring earthly things who might long ago have learned from even the pagan philosophers that nothing is wonderful but the soul, which, when great itself, finds nothing great outside itself. Then, in truth, I was satisfied that I had seen enough of the mountain; I turned my inward eye upon myself, and from that time not a syllable fell from my lips until we reached the bottom again... [W]e look about us for what is to be found only within... How many times, think you, did I turn back that day, to glance at the summit of the mountain which seemed scarcely a cubit high compared with the range of human contemplation.
* Augustine's Confessions: And men go about to wonder at the heights of the mountains, and the mighty waves of the sea, and the wide sweep of rivers, and the circuit of the ocean, and the revolution of the stars, but themselves they consider not.
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