Sourced and curated.

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.

Inferno · 1321

★ 8.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Haste denies all acts their dignity.

Inferno · 1321

★ 7.7

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 6.5

Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.

Thence we came forth to see the stars again.

Venus and Adonis · 1593

★ 6.3

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Inferno · 1321

★ 5.7

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

My course is set for an uncharted sea.

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 5.5

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

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

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

In His will is our peace.

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

A great flame follows a little spark.

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

He listens well who takes notes.

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

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.

Inferno · 1321

★ 4.0

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

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

Paradiso · 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?

Inferno · 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.

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.

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 4.0

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.

Paradiso · 1321

★ 4.0

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.

Paradiso · 1321

★ 3.9

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Inferno · 1321

★ 3.9

Oh sleep! It is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole!

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.8

Nor dim nor red, like God's own head, The glorious Sun uprist.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.8

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea!

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.8

Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies. Love is all truth, Lust full of forgèd lies.

Venus and Adonis · 1593

★ 3.7

It easeth some, though none it ever cur'd, To think their dolour others have endur'd.

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 3.7

Vows were ever brokers to defiling.

Shakespeare's Sonnets · 1609

★ 3.7

Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed The lighthouse top I see? Is this the hill? Is this the kirk? Is this mine one countree?

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

He prayeth well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free; We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

Till clombe above the eastern bar The horned Moon, with one bright star Within the nether tip.

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

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 3.7

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

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

Inferno · 1321

★ 2.4

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.

Inferno · 1321

★ 2.4

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

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

Purgatorio · 1321

★ 2.3

Poem · Narrative poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

Inferno · 1321

★ 2.3

Though men can cover crimes with bold stern looks, Poor women's faces are their own faults' books.

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 2.1

Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator.

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 2.1

Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 2.1

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 2.1

Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution.

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 2.0

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.

The Rape of Lucrece · 1594

★ 2.0

The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798

★ 2.0

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.