I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy
esctasy so great that I would have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy.
in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.
This is what I sought,
and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what -- at last -- I have found.