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
mind doe heard
Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42
spiritual stars moving
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.
true-love men self
Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
butterfly judgment born
Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?
life purpose states
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness.
love doubt wells
I love to doubt as well as know.
time sleep way
I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.
evil defense instruments
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
literature saws depth
I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
fall shadow phantoms
As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
eye circles heaven
The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
men desert beloved
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.
pulse veins divine-comedy
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
divine
That with him were, what time the Love Divine