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
footprint goodness divine
The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness.
willpower
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
pain cities justice
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
oneness unity needs
Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy.
flames blood veins
Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.
sea uncharted courses
My course is set for an uncharted sea.
change fashion men
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
beauty fire heat
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
summer flower sunny
All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.
dream memories lying
The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.
stones grew weeping
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
white light way
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.
lap hue earth
Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.
self ignorant spurs
Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity.