Dante Alighieri Quotes
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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
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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.
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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
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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.
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Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.
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If you give people light, they will find their own way.
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
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Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
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A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
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Love with delight discourses in my mind Upon my lady's admirable gifts... Beyond the range of human intellect.
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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.
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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.
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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
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Go right on and listen as thou goest.
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He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary.