Dante Alighieri Quotes - Page 6

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• My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.

  Dante Alighieri

  Giving, Soul, Appetite

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Purgatorio, Song XXXI, 128, 1321.

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• O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Christian, Believe

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.393, Penguin

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• Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

  Dante Alighieri

  Quilts, Lying, Air

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• I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flames, Grace, Doe

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• No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

  Dante Alighieri

  Memories, Sadness, Joy

  Dante Alighieri (2009). “I'll Tell what I Saw: Images from Dante's Divine Comedy”

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• At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Journey, Path

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• ... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Happy Times, Misery

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• Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Cities, People

  Dante Alighieri (1846). “The vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary. With notes”, p.18

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• I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Giving, Good Man

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• As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dream, Powerful, Fall

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.369, Penguin

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

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Memories, Grief

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi”, Signet

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• One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

  Dante Alighieri

  Needs, Harm, Ought

  Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 02”

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• Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]

  Dante Alighieri

  Motto, Abandon

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• To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Beautiful, Stars, Tunnels

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• I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.

  Dante Alighieri

  Stars, Eye, Moon

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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Journey, Woods

  Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (1995). “Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.19, Indiana University Press

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• Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

  Dante Alighieri

  Literature, More To Life

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.302, Penguin

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• Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spring, Roots, Age

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.252, Univ of California Press

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• The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

  Dante Alighieri

  Lying, Men, Fame

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.208, Penguin

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• Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

  Dante Alighieri

  Language, Muse, Destroying

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• O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Wings, Anxiety

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• Honor is the greatest poet.

  Dante Alighieri

  Honor, Poet

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• How come I never meet any nice girls?

  Dante Alighieri

  Girl, Nice, Nice Girl

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• Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wings, Reason, Following

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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• Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

  Dante Alighieri

  Spiritual, Stars, Moving

  Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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