At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.


The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi (ed. Signet, 1982)

Dante Alighieri Quotes

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.