Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness.
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Follow your path, and let the people talk.
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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
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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.
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This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them.
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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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In His will, our peace.
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Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
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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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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
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In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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These have not the hope to die.
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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.
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Still desiring, we live without hope.
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Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
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Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
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The path to paradise begins in hell.
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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
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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.
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Infinite goodness has such wide arms.