When he saw me weeping, he answered: ‘You must go another road, if you wish to escape this savage place. This creature, that distresses you, allows n… - Dante Alighieri

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When he saw me weeping, he answered: ‘You must go another road, if you wish to escape this savage place. This creature, that distresses you, allows no man to cross her path, but obstructs him, to destroy him, and she has so vicious and perverse a nature, that she never sates her greedy appetite, and after food is hungrier than before.

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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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And he began: “What destiny or chance brings you down here before your dying day, and who points out the road by which you advance?”

I said: “In the pleasant life I lost my way before the fullness of my age had come. It was in a valley that I went astray.

Yesterday morning I was fleeing from that place when I turned back, and he came to me. And now along this path he leads me home.”

“Follow your star and you will certainly come to a glorious harbor, if it is true that in the sweet life I had power to see,” — from Canto XV

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"Jak kwiatki, nocnym powarzone szronem,
Stulone gną się, aż gdy je odbieli
Słońce, wraz czołem się wznoszą i łonem,
Podobnie we mnie otucha wystrzeli,
A serce taka umocni odwaga,
Że wołam jako człek, co się ośmieli:
"O, przelitośna ta, co mię wspomaga!
I ty litośny, że długiej namowy
Nie używała do cię jej powaga.
Ty swoim przyjściem i swoimi słowy
Takie w mym sercu wzbudziłeś pragnienie,
Żem znowu silny, żem znowu gotowy.
Pójdźmyż, niech dwojga jedno będzie chcenie;
Ty Mistrzem moim, ty Wodzem, ty Panem".
Zmilkłem, on ruszył; na jego skinienie
Poszedłem krajem trudnym i nieznanem."

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