547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

The more perfect a thing the more it feels good and evil.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprendeprese costui de la bella personache mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende.Amor, che a nullo amato amar perdona,Mi prese del costui piacer sì forte,Che, come vedi, ancor non m'abbandona...""Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart,Seized him with my beautiful formThat was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.Love, which pardons no beloved from loving,took me so strongly with delight in himThat, as you see, it still abandons me not...

Love, that moves the sun and the other stars

Here powers failed my high imagination:But by now my desire and will were turned,Like a balanced wheel rotated evenly,By the Love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde

Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state,perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and herewere every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

From a little spark may burst a flame.