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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.
Dante Alighieri -
At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
Dante Alighieri
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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
Dante Alighieri -
As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
Dante Alighieri -
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
Dante Alighieri -
O you, who in some pretty boat, Eager to listen, have been following Behind my ship, that singing sails along Turn back to look again upon your own shores; Tempt not the deep, lest unawares, In losing me, you yourselves might be lost. The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. You other few who have neck uplifted Betimes to the bread of angels upon Which one lives and does not grow sated, Well may you launch your vessel Upon the deep sea.
Dante Alighieri -
My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
Dante Alighieri -
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
Dante Alighieri
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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.
Dante Alighieri -
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
Dante Alighieri -
That with him were, what time the Love Divine.
Dante Alighieri -
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
Dante Alighieri -
Follow your path, and let the people talk.
Dante Alighieri -
There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.
Dante Alighieri
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I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
Dante Alighieri -
They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
Dante Alighieri -
And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
Dante Alighieri -
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri -
Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
Dante Alighieri -
The experience of this sweet life.
Dante Alighieri
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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things.
Dante Alighieri -
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
Dante Alighieri -
If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
Dante Alighieri -
Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
Dante Alighieri