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
ice fire darkness
Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.
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.
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.