Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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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 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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Follow your path, and let the people talk.
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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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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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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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
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In His will, our peace.
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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
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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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Still desiring, we live without hope.
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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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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
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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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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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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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Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
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Honor is the greatest poet.
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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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Abandon every hope, you who enter.
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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.