from Dante Études, Book One: We Will Endeavor

[De Vulgari Eloquentia, I,I] “We will endeavor, the word aiding us from Heaven, to be of service to the vernacular speech” —from “Heaven” these “draughts of the sweetest   honey-milk”, si dolcemente from the language we first heard endearments    whisperings infant song and revery a world we wanted    to go out into, to come to ourselves     into, organizations in the sound of them verging upon meaning, upon “Heaven”, hermetic talk into which my range of understandings was to grow    for love of it portents and adults expounding controversial doctrines, personal science fictions and rules of order, but our own “is that which we acquire without any rule”    for love of it “imitating our nurses”