Michelangelo Buonarroti Quotes (4 Quotes)

There is no tongue to speak his eulogy Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the tongue to reach his smallest worth, He to the realms of sinfulness came down, To teach mankind, ascending then to God, Heaven unbarred to him her lofty gates, To whom his country heres refused to ope. Ungrateful land Well, too, does this instruct That greatest ills fall to the perfectest. And, midst a thousand proofs, let this suffice That, as his exile had no parallel, So never was there man more great than he.

The power of one fair face makes my love sublime, for it has weaned my heart from low desires.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish.