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
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.
longing no-hope
We have no hope and yet we live in longing.
motto abandon
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
sweet sweet-life
The experience of this sweet life.
sad justice divine
Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here.
death dying dies
These have not the hope to die.
sight circles squares
As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.
moments capacity ability
At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
blow wind may
Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.
book dark journey
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
stars moving sun
Love can move the Sun and the stars.
blow idols wind
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.