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
delight range intellect
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect.
heart exclusion sowing
Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary
fall wind race
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
omnipotence cities people
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
ifs verses knows
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
pain justice glances
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
needs helping projects
Small projects need much more help than great.
arms infinite goodness
Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
moving glory penetrate
The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.
dark forests divine-comedy
I found myself within a forest dark,
men giving good-man
I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.
want necks sound
Sounds like you're overcompensating... Besides, I didn't want you to get a creak in your neck from lookin' down at me.
hurt white clouds
A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.
men way taste
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.