Dante Alighieri Quotes
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These have not the hope to die.
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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
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The experience of this sweet life.
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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
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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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Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world the sun rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."
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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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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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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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If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
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Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
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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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That with him were, what time the Love Divine.
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E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")
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The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
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Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things.
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He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
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The human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.
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Abandon every hope, you who enter.
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Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!