Dante Alighieri Quote

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


The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi (ed. Signet, 1982)


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

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

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

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