Dante Alighieri Quotes

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And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.

Dante Alighieri
But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

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How brief a blaze a woman's love will yield If not relit by frequent touch and sight.

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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

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Thou [Virgil] art my master and my author, thou art he from whom alone I took the style whose beauty has done me honor.

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But when thou shalt be in the sweet world, I pray thee bring me to men's memory.

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"The Royal Banners are coming forth — those of the master of hell — towards us now; so look ahead and see," my master said, "whether you can discern him."

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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 the will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

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This mountain is such that it is always hard at the start below and the higher one goes it is less toilsome.

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As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

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All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

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It was now the hour that turns back the longing of seafarers and melts their hearts, the day they have bidden dear friends farewell, and pierces the new traveler with love if he hears in the distance the bell that seems to mourn the dying day.

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To have heard without retaining does not make knowledge.

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A Galeotto [a pander] was the book and writer too: that day we did not read any more.

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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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There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.

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Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

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The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

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Their eyes seem'd rings from whence the gems were gone.

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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

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Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

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I came into a place void of all light, which bellows like the sea in tempest, when it is combated by warring winds.

Dante Alighieri
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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I saw within Its depth how It conceives all things in a single volume bound by Love, of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

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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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