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
desire without-hope
Without hope we live in desire.
time
Everywhere is here and every when is now.
journey divine-comedy midway
Midway upon the journey of our life
flames answers alive
If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
pity
Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil
divine
That with him were, what time the Love Divine
life mutual
Love, which insists that love shall mutual be.
life heart gentle
Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.
life soul sorrow
This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.
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.
wings reason following
Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.