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
fall wind race
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
cat evil fallen
The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.
fall shadow phantoms
As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
stars pain fall
But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.
fall light honor
As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
dream powerful fall
As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
fall believe men
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
cause dim hidden intellect judgment lies lies-and-lying number remote root since skill therefore thy
Predestination! how remote and dim Thy root lies hidden from the intellect Which only glimpses the First Cause Supreme! And you, ye mortals, keep your judgment checked, Since we, who see God, have not therefore skill To know yet all the number of the
born consider follow virtue
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
consider follow knowledge might virtue
Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge
consider follow humankind virtue
Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
bursts flame mighty spark
From a little spark bursts a mighty flame
love moves sun
Love that moves the sun and the other stars.
air cries faint horrible knows pain sand uncouth
Uncouth tongues, horrible shriekings of despair, Shrill and faint voices, cries of pain and rage, And, with it all, smiting of hands, were there, Making a tumult, nothing could assuage, To swirl in the air that knows not day or night, Like sand withi