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
mind delight retrospect
Often a retrospect delights the mind.
heart pride speech
The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride. [It., Lo tuo ver dir m'incuora Buona umilta e gran tumor m'appiani.]
doe talent speed
Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.
spring roots age
Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
powerful
Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.
prayer heart grace
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
love men may
No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.
heart justice bows
Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
stars moving desire
But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars
military race liberty
The human race is in the best condition when it has the greatest degree of liberty.
spirit
That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
courage towers tempest
Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti. Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
dark journey path
At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost...
silence deeds should
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.