Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
Durante degli Alighieri, simply called Dante, was a major Italian poet of the Late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìaand later christened Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPoet
CountryItaly
language muse destroying
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
men wings anxiety
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
Go right on and listen as thou goest.
inferno
They yearn for what they fear for.
heard wells
The well heeded well heard.
branches doe virtue
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.
It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
pleasure
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.
doubt charm doubted
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
men feet numbers
O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.
moving amor divine-comedy
He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
fate sorrow desire
I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?
self sea chimes
Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible.
stars saws
From there we came outside and saw the stars