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
bugs crap
It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do.
kids screw-ups ass
Well, if the kid screws up, then I'll just have to kick his ass.
shadow my-love-for-you emptiness
Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.
dark savages littles
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more...
desire lost without-hope
Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.
love land heaven
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
remembrance suffering sorrow
No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.
sweet sweet-love heart
Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.
people
Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti (Follow your road and let the people say)
path faces looks
They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.
wings reason following
Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
people way path
Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.
fighting thinking interesting
A fight every now and again does make life more interesting. Don't ya think?
air singing lasts
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.