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I by not doing, not by doing, lost The sight of that high sun which thou desirest, And which too late by me was recognized. - Dante Alighieri
" "I by not doing, not by doing, lost
The sight of that high sun which thou desirest,
And which too late by me was recognized.
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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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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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