Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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In His will, our peace.
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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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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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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
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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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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 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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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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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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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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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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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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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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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
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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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Still desiring, we live without hope.
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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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If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven.
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
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Abandon every hope, you who enter.
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The experience of this sweet life.