Dante Alighieri Quotes

That your art, as best it can, also follows Divine Intellect, as the disciple follows the master; So in reality, your art is, as it were, God's grandchild.

And just as he who, with exhausted breath,
having escaped from sea to shore, turns back
to watch the dangerous waters he has quit,
so did my spirit, still a fugitive,
turn back to look intently at the pass
that never has let any man survive.

This writing is of bone and sinew.

In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.

Amore e ‘l cor gentil sono una cosa, sì come il saggio in suo dittare pone, e così esser l’un sanza l’altro osa com’alma razional sanza ragione. Falli natura quand’è amorosa, Amor per sire e ‘l cor per sua magione, dentro la qual dormendo si riposa tal volta poca e tal lunga stagione. Bieltate appare in saggia donna pui, che piace a gli occhi sì, che dentro al core nasce un disio de la cosa piacente; e tanto dura talora in costui, che fa svegliar lo spirito d’Amore. E simil face in donna omo valente.

"И я, с главою, ужасом стесненной:
"Чей это крик? — едва спросить посмел. — Какой толпы, страданьем побежденной?"

И вождь в ответ: "То горестный удел
Тех жалких душ, что прожили, не зная
Ни славы, ни позора смертных дел.

И с ними ангелов дурная стая,
Что, не восстав, была и не верна
Всевышнему, средину соблюдая.

Их свергло небо, не терпя пятна;
И пропасть Ада их не принимает,
Иначе возгордилась бы вина".

(Песнь третья, "Ад")"

Joyous Love seemed to me, the while he held
My heart within his hands, and in his arms
My lady lay asleep wrapped in a veil.
He woke her then and trembling and obedient
She ate that burning heart out of his hand;
Weeping I saw him then depart from me.

A ciascun’alma presa e gentil core
Nel cui cospetto ven lo dir presente,
In ciò che mi rescrivan suo parvente,
Salute in lor segnor, cioè Amore.

Già eran quasi che 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 braccia avea
Madonna involta in un drappo dormendo.

Poi la svegliava, e d’esto core ardendo
Lei paventosa umilmente pascea:
Appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo.

From there we came outside and saw the stars

O capitão Nemo indicou-me tão grande aglomeração de ostras que compreendi que aquela mina era de facto inesgotável, porque a força criadora da natureza excede o instinto destruidor do homem.

and the shining strengthened me against the fright
whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart
through all the terrors of that piteous night.

»Toda cosa se teme solamente »por su potencia de dañar dotada: »cuando no hay daño, miedo no se siente.

He eyed the snake. The reptile eyed him back. Each gave out smoke in streams – the wound of one, the serpent’s jaws. The smoke streams slowly met.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here!

Tudo o que começou tem forçosamente um fim neste mundo.