Jacopone da Todi

Now, a new creature, I in Christ am born, O let me die of Love!

— Jacopone da Todi

The soul wills and yet does not will: Shaped nothingness, made one with the Lord.

— Jacopone da Todi

Love, infusing with light all who share Your splendor, Unites it with the Incarnate One.

— Jacopone da Todi

Love, where did You enter the heart unseen? Of your endlessly beautiful riches

— Jacopone da Todi

In losing all, the soul has risen A loss and a gain impossible to describe.

— Jacopone da Todi

To lose and to hold tightly, Of charity and truth.

— Jacopone da Todi

There is no other action at those heights; Beyond its powers of perception.

— Jacopone da Todi

Love beyond all telling, Glows in my heart.

— Jacopone da Todi

Light beyond metaphor, Can never describe it.

— Jacopone da Todi

I once thought that reason That that truth was flawed.

— Jacopone da Todi

On achieving their desired end And is stripped of all it possessed, no matter how dear.

— Jacopone da Todi

In God the spiritual faculties How this comes about it does not know.

— Jacopone da Todi