Unfolded out of the sympathy of the woman is all sympathy;
A man is a great thing upon the earth, and through eternity—but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman,
First the man is shaped in the woman, he can then be shaped in himself.”
—Walt Whitman (“Leaves of Grass”).
LXIII.
2.—“... the dream men named Divine,—”
“Divine” was the title of honour conferred on the “Commedia,” by the repentant citizens of Florence, after the death of Dante.
8.—“The love that moves the sun and every circling star.”
The last line of the “Divina Commedia” is—
“Lo amor che move il sole e le altre stelle.”