Dante Alighieri Quotes
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Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
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Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa...e così esser l'un sanza l'altro osacom'alma razional sanza ragione.
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My course is set for an uncharted sea.
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No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.
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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.
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You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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Eternal love made me.
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Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.
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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
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I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)