Dante called the purest kind of beauty visible parlare (visible speech or visible speaking). The beauty is so great, Dante said, that it can only be God’s handiwork:
Colui che mai non vide cosa nova
produsse esto visibile parlare,
novello a noi perché qui non si trova. (Purg. 10.94-96)
This was the speech made visible by One
within whose sight no thing is new — but we,
who lack its likeness here, find novelty.
As I did in my book, This Visible Speaking: Catching Light Through The Camera’s Eye,
I am always looking for that beauty in the images I see in the world and try to capture through my camera and poetry. Here are the small moments I find.
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When I find beauty, I ‘ll share it.