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
flames sparks tiny
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
travel art nature
Nature is the art of God.
peace father humility
They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.
thinking blood cost
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
quilts lying air
Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.
dream powerful fall
As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
beauty spiritual soul
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
black devil divine-comedy
The devil is not as black as he is painted.
night light rose
As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.
pain grief past
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
passion soul noble
Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.
simple deep-meaning simple-words
Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words
inferno
Love insists the loved loves back
needs spirit refusal
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.