Bethink thee then how love must be the seed In you, not only of each virtuous action, But also of each punishable deed. - Dante Alighieri

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Bethink thee then how love must be the seed
In you, not only of each virtuous action,
But also of each punishable deed.

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About Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (c. 30 May 1265 – 13 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

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Alternative Names: Dante • Durante degli Alighieri • Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
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I have seen her walk all dressed in green,
so formed she would have sparked love in a stone,
that love I bear for her very shadow,
so that I wished her, in those fields of grass, — Dante Alighieri, from “Pantoum,” Divine Comedy (Berkley, 2003)
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