Dante Alighieri Quotes
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He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
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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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Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
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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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There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault.
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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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Eternal love made me.
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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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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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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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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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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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He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
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The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.
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Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.
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That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
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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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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes
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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.)