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 gone woods
In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct.
knowledge wells
Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
hope without-hope stills
Still desiring, we live without hope.
pulse veins divine-comedy
For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
twilight men soul
Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.
wings reason following
Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
moving amor divine-comedy
He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.
mirrors light race
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads farther the eternal good increases upon it,and the more souls there are who love, up there, the more there are to love well, and the more love they reflect to each other, as in a mirror.
blessed wrath peacemaker
Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.
heart may mankind
Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
prayer heart grace
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
greater happy mindful sorrow time
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.
greater happy midst recall sorrow time
There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
darkest maintain moral places politics reserved
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.