Dante Alighieri Quotes
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The glory of the one who moves everything penetrates the universe, and shines in one part more and less elsewhere.
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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
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Nel suo profondo vidi che s'interna,legato con amore in un volume,ciò che per l'universo si squaderna.
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A maggior forza e a miglior naturaliberi soggiacete; e quella criala mente in voi, che 'l ciel no ha in sua cura.Però, se 'l mondo presente disvia,in voi è la cagione, in voi si cheggia.
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Io son colui, che tenni ambo le chiaviDel cor di Federigo, e sì le volsi,Serrando e disserrando, sì soavi.
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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.
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Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.
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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
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Lo pianto stesso lì pianger non lascia,e 'l duol che truova in su li occhi rintoppo,si volge in entro a far crescer l'ambascia.
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Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
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Che l'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,Segue, come il Maestro fa il discente,Sì che vostr'arte a Dio quasi è nipote.
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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon.
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Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
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Non isperate mai veder lo cielo:i' vegno per menarvi a l'altra rivane le tenebre etterne, in caldo e 'n gelo.
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The purpose of the whole the Comedy and of this portion the Paradiso is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.
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Ché cima di giudicio non s'avvallaperché foco d'amor compia in un puntociò che de' sodisfar chi qui s'astalla.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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How come I never meet any nice girls?
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
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Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.