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
life mutual
Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.
life soul sorrow
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
sweet sweet-life
The experience of this sweet life.
life gone woods
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
life purpose states
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them to the state of blessedness.
life silence facts
The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact.
life heart gentle
Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
life dark journey
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
dark life lost middle road true wholly wood
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost
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