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
brought cut division society
Yes, and he's cut in two because he has brought division to society.
borne disgrace lived miserable praise souls state wretched
This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.
crown happier sorrow
A sorrow's crown of sorrow, Is remembering happier things
bursts flame mighty spark
From a little spark bursts a mighty flame
imagination ears sound
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
inferno
They yearn for what they fear for.
arms infinite goodness
Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
fighting thinking interesting
A fight every now and again does make life more interesting. Don't ya think?
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.
time sleep way
I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.
divine-comedy inferno gates-of-hell
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
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.
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.