547 Quotes by Dante Alighieri

Amor, ch’a nullo amato amar perdona.

These are the radiancies of the perfected vision that sees the good and step by step moves nearer what it sees.

The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary.

My senses down, when the true.

So, now, with me. That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute.

He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first.

Hence we may overthrow the error of those who think to form the moral character of others by speaking well and doing ill; forgetting that the hands of Jacob were more persuasive with his father than his words, though his hands deceived and his voice spake truth.

When he saw me weeping, he answered: ‘You must go another road, if you wish to escape this savage place. This creature, that distresses you, allows no man to cross her path, but obstructs him, to destroy him, and she has so vicious and perverse a nature, that she never sates her greedy appetite, and after food is hungrier than before.