FEMALE POETIC SHADES – Dante, Guido and William: love and poetry, the greatest of poetic horizons

Like poetry, also love accompanies the story of our lives. Its roots in the mists of time, poetry has preserved for us the story of distant eras. Love and poetry, constitute one of the most inseparable pairs that have accompanied the evolution of our culture. Write poems, he coincided with talk about love. Inside this great poetic horizon, countless were the authors who have wanted to express in words what is in fact difficult to express: I love you.

SO DEAR AND MUCH HONESTY, APPEARS – Dante Alighieri

So gentle and so honest is my woman when she greets others, that every tongue should remain silent, trembling, and eyes can not look at her. She goes, feeling praise, benignly dressed in humility; and it seems to have a thing coming from heaven to earth to show miracles. She shows so attractive to the viewer, which provides eye sweet to the soul, which can not understand those who fail the test; and it seems that from her lips move one gentle spirit full of love, that is saying to the soul: he sighs.

I SAW EYES WHERE LOVE YOU IS SET – Guido Cavalcanti

I saw the eyes where Love began when I made him scary, that watching me as I was boring then I say that the heart is divided; and were it not that the woman laughed, I would speak of this so sorrowful, that Love would I do the same angry mood, he did it imagine that conquered me. From the sky moved a spirit, at that point the woman I deign to look, and you came to pose in my’ll think: so of true Love, every virtue seems to see me as I had arrived in her heart.

TO THE BELOVED – William Shakespeare

If you read these verses, forget the hand that wrote them: I love you so much that I would not remain in your sweet thoughts, if the thought of me made you suffer.