Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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.
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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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O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.
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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.
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Go right on and listen as thou goest.
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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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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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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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There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.
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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
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There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of despair.
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...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.
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If you give people light, they will find their own way.
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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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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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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Follow your path, and let the people talk.
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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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Go forth and preach impostures to the world, But give them truth to build on.
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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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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Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.
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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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Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.