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It justifies the bold and true words of Tasso: Non merita nome di creatore, se non Iddio ed il Poeta. A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.
"Perocche, condizione e del' amore d' amare quando si sente amare, d' amare tutte le cose che ama colui ch' egli ama. E pero, a mano che l' anima ha conosciuto l' amore del suo Creatore verso di lui, l' ama: e amandolo, ama tutte quelle cose che Dio ama." "For it is of the nature of love, to love when it feels itself loved, and to love all things loved of its beloved.
Persephone waits, too, in the faith of the sun she cannot see: and every lamp lit carries on the crusade which has for its goal a sunless, moonless, city whose light is the Light of the world. "Lume e lassu, che visibile face lo creatore a quella creatura, che solo in lui vedere ha la sua pace."
The red earth was enough for God when He made man in His own image; and mud dried in the sun suffices for the artist, who is next to God in his creative faculty since non merita nome di creatore se non Iddio ed il poeta. After all, what is more everlasting than terra-cotta?
It justifies the bold and true words of Tasso Non merita nome di creatore, se non Iddio ed il Poeta. A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.
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