… Finally, what is Reason ? You have often asked me ; and this is my
answer :–
Whene’er the mist, that stands ‘twixt God and thee,
[Sublimates] to a pure transparency,
That intercepts no light and adds no stain–
There Reason is, and then begins her reign !
But alas !
——`tu stesso, ti fai grosso
Col falso immaginar, s? che non vedi
Ci? che vedresti, se l’avessi scosso.’
(Dante, Paradiso, Canto 1, lines 88-90)
(Samuel Coleridge)
More Poetry from Samuel Coleridge:
- Inscription For A Fountain On A Heath (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
- Glycine's Song (Samuel Coleridge Poems)
- Lines (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
- The Blossing Of The Solitary Date-Tree (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
- As some vast Tropic tree, itself a wood (fragment) (Samuel Coleridge Poem)
- Hymn before Sun-rise, in the Vale of Chamouni (Samuel Coleridge Poem)