Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
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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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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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They yearn for what they fear for.
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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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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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L'esperîenzadi questa dolce vita.
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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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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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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
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The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
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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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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
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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.
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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.