Christmas 2011 Poetry - Michelangelo complete

"If all my roughness, then, should be so blest
by your compassion, then what penance ought
my feverish ardour by your rules be taught? "




                  - Michelangelo 








Happy Holidays to all 

Christmas 2011 Poetry - Michelangelo

"and so with me, among all models least:
for I was born to a great destiny -
to find new birth in you, Lady most high." 




         - Michelangelo

Christmas 2011 Poetry - Michelangelo

" Likewise on roughest paper, artists will
Make sketches, long before they use the brush.
Among a hundred efforts, crude and rash,
The right one springs at last from so much skill."  

         - Michelangelo

Christmas 2011 Poetry - Michelangelo

Michelangelo


    "If noble concepts have a birth divine
     In human looks and acts, the value is
     Doubled - that from such petty images
     A face, not art's, should in the dull stone shine."