THE CHOICE OF ONE DESIRE

***He is brought to questioning the very foundation of the poet's purpose: confronting whether language and truth are compatible. What is true in any action? When we say "I love you," do we feel love? Does our beloved? In the soul and in the body? How is one to convey truth so another receives its full value, not hypocritical or -to use a word from another time- unconscious intentions? Can language bear the weight of truth? These are questions of how to be understood, or "read," in the deepest sense -the quest, at heart, of politicians, philosophers, generals, anyone for whom another's life is on the line. Lovers too.***

(Del libro "Dante In Love" de Harriet Rubin)

***DANTE WILL MAKE hell a place of multiform loves, perversions of love, mistakes of love -as if accepting Guido's inspiration while at the same time denying Guido's influence. Dante's Hell will have more in common with the Marquis de Sade than with the Gospel of John. He will come to see that everything wrong with a person's vision has to do with energy wasted on the wrong or diverse passions. Genius is not found in desires, but in the choice of one desire, pursued against all else.***

(Del libro "Dante In Love" de Harriet Rubin)

***Guido's death fuels new questions in Dante in a way the young scholars in Paris or Bologna never imagined. Dante's search for happiness will take him to realms that intrude on other mysteries than the body, to a different kind of self-understanding. Dante saw the soul after death. Guido's vision, even of the body, was peculiarly blind. Boccaccio tells a story in The Decameron that Guido could become totally unaware when absorbed in chess. As a prank, a boy once nailed down his coattails to the bench while playing, scrunching up several folds of the cloth and driving the nail through. Guido feel nothing.***

(Del libro "Dante In Love" de Harriet Rubin)


así asentaron la frase:
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness