Dante Alighieri Quotes
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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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And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
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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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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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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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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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Eternal love made me.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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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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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes
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As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
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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.)
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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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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Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
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O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?
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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.