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
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
justice doe pinnacle
Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
giving desert spirituality
Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
blow men wind
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
dream morning ifs
But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.
salt path bread
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.