WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:24:31 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg mirage – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Ariosto, Ludovico -- Orlando Furioso, Canto 1, st. 56 [ll. 396-97] (1532) [tr. Waldman] https://wist.info/ariosto-ludovico/41141/ https://wist.info/ariosto-ludovico/41141/#respond Mon, 23 Mar 2020 18:39:12 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=41141 What a man sees, Love can make invisible —
And what is invisible, that can Love make him see.

[Quel che l’huom vede Amor gli fa invisibile
E l’invisibil fa vedere Amore.]


Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) Italian poet
Orlando Furioso, Canto 1, st. 56 [ll. 396-97] (1532) [tr. Waldman]

Alt. trans.:
  • "Love, what we can see, can from our sight remove, / And things invisible are seen by Love." [tr. Hoole (1807)]
  • "Since love, who sees without one guiding gleam, / Spies in broad day but that which likes him best." [tr. Rose (1831)]
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