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
moon people soul
When we encountered a band of souls coming along the barrier, and each was gazing at us in the evening people gaze at one another under the new moon
house gallows made
I made my own house be my gallows.
wind long earth
The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long.
men relaxation every-man
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
world follow-me babbling
Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
giving soul appetite
My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
morning stars firsts
It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things
dark air hands
And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.
heart may mankind
Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
sea water heaven
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
faults shame greater
Less shame a greater fault would palliate.
love punishment deeds
Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.
fashion liberty world
We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.
wall circles iron
There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.