Dante Alighieri Quotes
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A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
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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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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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I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
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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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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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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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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.
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If you give people light, they will find their own way.
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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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Go right on and listen as thou goest.
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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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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
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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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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary.
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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.
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He is not always at ease who laughs.
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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
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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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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
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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.