Dante Alighieri quotes - page 5

Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher, best known for his epic poem "The Divine Comedy." His work laid the foundation for modern Italian language and literature. He is recognized as one of the greatest literary figures of the Middle Ages. Here are 171 of his quotes:

But now was turning my desire and will,
Even as a wheel that equally is moved,
The Love which moves the sun and the other stars. (Dante Alighieri)

From that point Dependent is the heaven and nature all.

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Therefore the sight that is granted to your world penetrates within the Eternal Justice as the eye into the sea; for though from the shore it sees the bottom, in the open sea it does not, and yet the bottom is there but the depth conceals it.

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The use of men is like a leaf On bough, which goeth and another cometh.

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And sweet to us is such a deprivation, Because our good in this good is made perfect, That whatsoe'er God wills, we also will.

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Heaven, to keep its beauty, cast them out, but even Hell itself would not receive them for fear the wicked there might glory over them.

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As sheep come issuing forth from out the fold By ones and twos and threes, and the others stand Timidly, holding down their eyes and nostrils, And what the foremost does the others do, Huddling themselves against her, if she stop, Simple and quiet and the wherefore know not.

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Now who art thou, that on the bench wouldst sit In judgment at a thousand miles away, With the short vision of a single span?

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Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.

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One day, to pass the time away, we read of Lancelot-how love had overcome him. We were alone, and we suspected nothing. And time and time again that reading led our eyes to meet, and made our faces pale, and yet one point alone defeated us. When we had read how the desired smile was kissed by one who was so true a lover, this one, who never shall be parted from me, while all his body trembled, kissed my mouth. A Gallehault indeed, that book and he who wrote it, too; that day we read no more.

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Now the kind of philosophy under which we proceed in the whole and in the part is moral philosophy or ethics; because the whole was undertaken not for speculation but for practice. (Dante Alighieri)

My maker was divine authority.

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'Vexilla Regis prodeunt Inferni' Towards us; therefore look in front of thee," My Master said, "if thou discernest him.

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Ye keep your watch in the eternal day.

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It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them.

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For top of judgment doth not vail itself, Because the fire of love fulfils at once What he must satisfy who here installs him.

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He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who gives his life for it.

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You dull your own perceptions with false imaginings and do not grasp what would be clear but for your preconceptions.

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Here sighs and lamentations and loud cries were echoing across the starless air, so that, as soon as I set out, I wept. Strange utterances, horrible pronouncements, accents of anger, words of suffering, and voices shrill and faint, and beating hands- all went to make a tumult that will whirl forever through that turbid, timeless air, like sand that eddies when a whirlwind swirls.

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That your art follows her so far as it can, as the disciple does the master, so that your art is as it were grandchild of God.

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I came into a place void of all light,
which bellows like the sea in tempest,
when it is combated by warring winds. (Dante Alighieri)

Do not rest in so profound a doubt except she tell it thee, who shall be a light between truth and intellect. I know not if thou understand: I speak of Beatrice.

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But so much the more malign and wild does the ground become with bad seed and untilled, as it has the more of good earthly vigor.

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If thou art, Reader, slow now to believe What I shall say, it will no marvel be, For I who saw it hardly can admit it.

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The night that hides things from us.

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Dante Alighieri

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Occupation: Italian Poet
Born: May 23, 1265
Died: September 5, 1321
Quotes count: 171
Wikipedia: Dante Alighieri

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