Dante Alighieri Quotes

And he to me: This mountain's of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start;
but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind

I wept not, so to stone within I grew.

To every heart which the sweet pain doth move,
And unto which these words may now be brought
For true interpretation and kind thought,
Be greeting in our Lord’s name, which is Love.
Of those long hours wherein the stars, above,
Wake and keep watch, the third was almost nought,
When Love was shown me with such terrors fraught
As may not carelessly be spoken of.
He seemed like one who is full of joy, and had
My heart within his hand, and on his arm
My lady, with a mantle round her, slept;
Whom (having wakened her) anon he made
To eat that heart; she ate, as fearing harm.
Then he went out; and as he went, he wept.

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.

"Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Nos quedan tres cosas del paraíso: las estrellas, las flores y los niños" (Dante Alighieri)"

all flee from virtue as if it were a snake,
an enemy to all, whether some curse
is on the place or evil habits goad them on,

'and those who live in that unhappy valley
are so altered in their nature it is as though
Circe were grazing them at pasture.

I am more than tricky when there's a chance to see my friends in greater misery.

Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say

High justice would in no way be debased
if ardent love should cancel instantly
the debts these penitents must satisfy.

Remember tonight for it's the beginning of forever.

Because the charity of my native place
Constrained me, gathered I the scattered leaves,
And gave them back to him, who now was hoarse.
Then came we to the confine, where disparted
The second round is from the third, and where
A horrible form of Justice is beheld.
Clearly to manifest these novel things,
I say that we arrived upon a plain,
Which from its bed rejecteth every plant;
The dolorous forest is a garland to it
All round about, as the sad moat to that;
There close upon the edge we stayed our feet.”

Excerpt From
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
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Mezcladas están con aquel malvado coro de los Angeles que ni fueron rebeldes a Dios, ni fieles, sino sólo para sí fueron.

Look hard, all you whose minds are sound and sane, and wonder at the meaning lying veiled beyond the curtain of this alien verse.

We climbed, he first and I behind, until though a small round opening ahead of us, I saw the lovely things the heavens hold, and we came out to see once more the stars.

it seemed inconceivable to him that he and mankind in general should not have been intended to develop to the fullest their specifically human potential.