| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 39476 |
| QUOTATION: | His hope is treacherous only whose love dies
With beauty, which is varying every hour;
But, in chaste hearts uninfluenced by the power
Of outward change, there blooms a deathless flower,
That breathes on earth the air of paradise. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Michelangelo Buonarroti (1474–1564), Italian artist. Yes! Hope may with my strong desire keep pace (l. 10–14). . .
Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press. |
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