547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.

I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.

Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Mankind is at its best when it is most free.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.