Dante Alighieri Quotes

So that their fear is turned into desire.

They have no hope of death, and their darkened life is so mean that they are envious of every other fate. Earth allows no mention of them to exist: mercy and justice reject them: let us not talk of them, but look and pass.

Hasty opinion too often points the wrong way, and then affection for one's own opinion binds up the intellect.

Through me you go to the grief wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest Power, of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love. Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings. And I endure eternally. Surrender as you enter, every hope you have.

Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde

This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.

they blasphemed God, their parents, their time on earth,
the race of Adam, and the day and the hour
and the place and the seed and the womb that gave them birth.

[Sonetto I]
A ciascun' alma presa e gentil core
nel cui cospetto ven lo dir presente,
a ciò che mi rescriva in su' parvente,
salute in lor segnor, ciò é Amore.
Gia eran quasi que atterzate l'ore
del tempo che onne stella n'è lucente,
quando m'apparve Amor subitamente,
cui essenza membrar mi dà orrore.
Allegro mi sembrava Amor tenendo
meo core in mano, e ne le bracci' avea
madonna involta 'n un drappo dormendo;
poi la svegliava, d'esto core ardendo
lei paventosa umilmente pascea:
appresso gir lo ne vedea piagendo.

And now I fell as bodies fall,for dead.

[...] when once our footsteps are set firm upon the melancholic shores of Acheron.

We were men once, though we've become trees

My soul, why dost thou not depart from me?
The torments which perforce will burden thee
Here in the world which hateful to thee grows
My mind with fearful apprehension
To Death then I appeal
As to a sweet, benecent repose:
‘Come now to me,’ with so much love I cry
That I am envious of all who die.

Justice incited my sublime Creator;
Created me divine Omnipotence,
The highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.

Ahora es preciso que desheches la pereza; que no se alcanza la fama reclinado en blanda pluma ni al abrigo de colchas; y el que consume su vida sin gloria, deja en pos de sí el mismo rastro que el humo en el aire o la espuima en el agua. Ea, pues, levántate; domina la fatiga con el alma, que vence todos los obstáculos mientras no se envilece con la pesadez del cuerpo.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.