547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

Await no further word or sign from me: your will is free, erect, and whole—to act against that will would be to err: therefore I crown and miter you over yourself.

I am the way into the city of woe,I am the way into eternal pain,I am the way to go among the lost.Justice caused my high architect to move,Divine omnipotence created me,The highest wisdom, and the primal love.Before me there were no created thingsBut those that last forever—as do I.Abandon all hope you who enter here.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi.

Se mai continga che 'l poema sacroal quale ha posto mano e cielo e terra,sì che m'ha fatto per molti anni macro,vinca la crudeltà che fuor mi serradel bello ovile ov'io dormi' agnello,nimico ai lupi che li danno guerra;con altra voce omai, con altro velloritornerò poeta, e in sul fontedel mio battesmo prenderò 'l cappello

your soul has been assailed by cowardice,which often weighs so heavily on a man--distracting him from honorable trials--as phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.

And just as he who, with exhausted breath,having escaped from sea to shore, turns backto watch the dangerous waters he has quit, so did my spirit, still a fugitive,turn back to look intently at the passthat never has let any man survive.

Noi siam venuti al loco ov'i' t'ho dettoche tu vedrai le genti dolorosec'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto.We to the place have come, where I have told theeThou shalt behold the people dolorousWho have foregone the good of intellect.

Zoals bloempjes die door de vrieskou van de nacht gebogen en gesloten zijn, wanneer de zon haar stralen over hen uitgiet alle opengaan en zich oprichten op hun stengels, zo hief ik mij toen op uit mijn neerslachtigheid.