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
faithful littles failing
O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
rocks broken pieces
So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.
hope without-hope stills
Still desiring, we live without hope.
mother father heart
My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and righteous heart. In the name of my father, I will kill Mundus!
art
All of nature is God's art.
spiritual mirrors light
"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.
journey divine-comedy midway
Midway upon the journey of our life
men charity thieves
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
life gone woods
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
running religious pain
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
sports angel order
The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract.
cat evil fallen
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
fate arrows expected
Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
knowledge wells
Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.