"A quel pietoso fonte, onde siam tutti, S'assembra ogni beltà che qua si vede, Più c'altra cosa alle persone accorte;"
— Michelangelo

January 1, 1970

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Variant translations: — To those who are wise, nothing more resembles that merciful spring whence all derive than every beauty to be found here; — Translated by Christopher Ryan, The poetry of Michelangelo: An Introduction (1988), p. 103 — Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.