"Chi po dir com'egli arde è 'n picciol foco."
— Petrarch
January 1, 1970
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Variant translation: — To be able to say how much you love is to love but little. — "[To Laura in Death, canzone] 137", as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1968), p. 163. (Bartlett’s references an older edition of the Canzoniere where sonnets (and other verse types) are numbered separately. This is from sonnet 137 which translates to canzone 170 when numbered through. The translation of chi pò dir com'egli arde, è 'n picciol foco is quite liberal.)
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Variant translation: — To be able to say how much you love is to love but little. — "[To Laura in Death, canzone] 137", as reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1968), p. 163. (Bartlett’s references an older edition of the Canzoniere where sonnets (and other verse types) are numbered separately. This is from sonnet 137 which translates to canzone 170 when numbered through. The translation of chi pò dir com'egli arde, è 'n picciol foco is quite liberal.)