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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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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He is not always at ease who laughs.
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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary.
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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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Still desiring, we live without hope.
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These have not the hope to die.
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
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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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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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Abandon every hope, you who enter.
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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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Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.
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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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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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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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And we came forth to contemplate the stars.
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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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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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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.
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In His will, our peace.