Dante Alighieri

Poet

1321-09-14

Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet, writer, and thinker best known for The Divine Comedy. His writings were central to the development of Italian literature and language.

Quotes by Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.
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I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.
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Within her presence, I had once been usedto feeling— trembling— wonder, dissolution;but that was long ago. Still, though my soul,now she was veiled, could not see her directly,by way of hidden force that she could move,I felt the mighty power of old love.
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The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.
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Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,Why fall ye thus before a little wind?
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Behave like men, and not like witless sheep...
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your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.
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Open thy mind; take in what I explain and keep it there; because to understand is not to know, if thou dost not retain...
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A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.
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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state,perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and herewere every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
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Mentre che la speranza ha fior del verde
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always
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Love, that moves the sun and the other stars
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I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.
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your soul is sunken in that cowardice that bears down many men, turning their course and resolution by imagined perils, as his own shadow turns the frightened horse.
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery
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Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always
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There is no greater sorrow than to recall our time of joy in wretchedness.
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