Was I going to invent an ideal lover as Petrarca had his Laura? Was I going to use the memory of a former lover or the haunting image of someone I had briefly met and barely spoken to as Dante had done with Beatrice in the "Vita Nuova"? Perhaps the solution would come to me as I wrote.
from Anthony Maulucci: Norwich Bulletin: Sonnet form elevates poetry with structure, rhythym
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