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
love spiritual mirrors
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.
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.
mankind
Mankind is at its best when it is most free.
love romantic clock-is-ticking
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
faith taken fate
Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
flames sparks risen
From a small spark, Great flame has risen.
stars moving sun
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)
light giving people
If you give people light, they will find their own way.
pain happy-times misery
... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)
knowledge men divine-comedy
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
real love-is mind
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.
inspirational happiness sad
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
needs spirit refusal
He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
heart glances lifts
A backward glance can often lift the heart.