547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

He listens well who takes notes.

I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more...

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom.

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.