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Person·Dante Alighieri✕clear

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter.

Dante Alighieri

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 2.3

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 2.3

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of a glorious haven.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 2.4

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 2.4

Love and the gracious heart are a single thing… One can no more be without the other Than the reasoning mind without its reason.

Dante Alighieri

La Vita Nuova · 1294

★ 3.8

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

Dante Alighieri

La Vita Nuova · 1294

★ 3.8

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The greatest gift which God in His bounty Bestowed in creating, And the most conformed to His own goodness And that which He most prizes, was the freedom of the will, With which the creatures that have intelligence, They all and they alone, were and are endowed.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso · 1321

★ 3.9

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlpool.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 3.9

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

With the color that paints the morning and evening clouds that face the sun I saw then the whole heaven suffused.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Here one must leave behind all hesitation; here every cowardice must meet its death.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

O human race, born to fly upward, Wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

Dante Alighieri

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

The reputation which the world bestows is like the wind, that shifts now here now there, its name changed with the quarter whence it blows.

Dante Alighieri

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

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.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

O pure and noble conscience, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

Dante Alighieri

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

In His will is our peace.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

A great flame follows a little spark.

Dante Alighieri

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

He listens well who takes notes.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Thence we came forth to see the stars again.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 5.7

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Haste denies all acts their dignity.

Dante Alighieri

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 6.5

In that part of the book of my memory, before which very little is written, there is a heading that reads "Here begins a new life".

Dante Alighieri

La Vita Nuova · 1294

★ 7.1

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 7.7

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 8.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

★ 8.7