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
together goes-on steps
Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
honor poet
Honor is the greatest poet.
beautiful taken heart
Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona, Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte, Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona..." "Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart, Seized him with my beautiful form That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me. Love, which pardons no beloved from loving, took me so strongly with delight in him That, as you see, it still abandons me not...
memories book pages
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.
pain cities people
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
littles bitterness faults
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
light sight long
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
passion sin reason
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
flames grace doe
I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
butterfly mean leaving
Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?
pain perfect pleasure
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
water shore turns
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
pedestal divine-comedy inferno
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
astrology
Astrology, the noblest of sciences.