O isplendor di Dio, per cu' io vidi,
l'altro triunfo del regno verace,
dammi virtù a dir com'io il vidi.
(Par. XXX 97-99)
Dante analyzes the various phases of our instinctive natural optical perception, all based on the senses and the play of light and color.
You, Nicholas, you've got a classic perception of beauty and you can send that ideal artistic almost unreachable to human possibilities.
You lead the moral degradation of humanity to come through the cathartic function of purgatory, to the saving of Paradise. All with humility, but with incomparable sculptural technique that we relive time and moments of the protagonists in an atmosphere of timeless silence.
Inspire in your listeners an emotional tension that involves everybody, and guide us to a model poetry strongly imbued in civil and moral reasons, and who points out to man, through suffering and struggle, the way of redemption.
The real poetry is a gift and assumes the dignity of those who receive it. This is the teaching left to us by Dante, and to you the task of perpetuating it.from Maria's message
