Dante Alighieri Quotes
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.
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti. (Follow your road and let the people say).
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
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.
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
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.
Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, Why fall ye thus before a little wind?
I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.
…I am left with lessthan one drop of my blood that does not tremble.I recognize the the signs of the old flame.
There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.
When you are nearer, you will understand how much your eyesight is deceived by distance. Therefore, push yourself a little harder.
And what will bow your shoulders downwill be the vicious and worthless company with whom you will fall into this abyss.
This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.
If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still."And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.
Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
High justice would in no way be debased if ardent love should cancel instantly the debts these penitents must satisfy.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
