# Quote — Virgil, The Aeneid

> First, the sky and the earth and the flowing fields of the sea,
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> the shining orb of the moon and the Titan sun, the stars:
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> an inner spirit feeds them, coursing through all their limbs,
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> mind stirs the mass and their fusion brings the world to birth.

- Author: [Virgil](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil.md)
- Book: [The Aeneid](https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid.md)
- Original (la): Principio caelum ac terras camposque liquentis / Lucentemque globum Lunae Titaniaque astra / Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus / Mens agitat molem et magno se corpore miscet.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aeneid#Book_VI) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/virgil/the-aeneid/first-the-sky

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