Dante Alighieri Quotes
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O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.
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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
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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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If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven.
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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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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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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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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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He is not always at ease who laughs.
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This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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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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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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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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Still desiring, we live without hope.
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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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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
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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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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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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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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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Abandon every hope, you who enter.