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.
pride men envy
There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair
eye circles heaven
The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
heard wells
The well heeded well heard.
literature more-to-life
Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
literature saws depth
I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.
evil defense instruments
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
time sleep way
I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.
bugs crap
It bugs the crap out of me when somebody talks more than I do.
divine-comedy inferno gates-of-hell
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
brought cut division society
Yes, and he's cut in two because he has brought division to society.
among divine endure enter eternal high highest maker primal runs suffering urged
Through me the way into the suffering city,Through me the way to the eternal pain,Through me the way that runs among the lost.Justice urged on my high artificer;My maker was divine authority,The highest wisdom, and the primal love.Before me nothing but eternal things were made,And I endure eternally.Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.
girl nice nice-girl
How come I never meet any nice girls?
secret-love done getting-high
The secret of getting things done is to act!