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
soul sin enough
These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.
mirrors light race
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.
stars eye moon
I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
love littles
He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
memories book substance
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things; and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book; if not all of them, at the least their substance.
flower night white
As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.
order form begets
…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God.
men air water
Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.
needs harm possessed
One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.
rivers heaven grace
So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.
blow light heaven
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.
heaven natural bent
If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven
stars
e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")
sweet mouths trembling
He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.