Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
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Amore,acceso di virtù, sempre altro accese,pur che la fiamma sua paresse fore.
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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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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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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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They yearn for what they fear for.
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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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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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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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The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
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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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Will cannot be quenched against its will.
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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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L'esperîenzadi questa dolce vita.
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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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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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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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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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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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Often a retrospect delights the mind.
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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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The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.