Dante Alighieri Quotes

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle
si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa,
l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle
...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

أحلك الأماكن في الجحيم هي لأولئك الذين يحافظون على حيادهم في الأزمات الأخلاقية.

Thus you may understand that love alone
is the true seed of every merit in you,
and of all acts for which you must atone.

The Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Nessun maggior dolore
che ricordarsi del tempo felice
nella miseria...

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.

Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.

The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.

Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra,

Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti
(Follow your road and let the people say)

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.