It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.
Dante AlighieriImagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
Dante AlighieriIf anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, t o please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act.
Dante AlighieriThrough me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
Dante AlighieriTo course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
Dante AlighieriI saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
Dante AlighieriYou shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Dante AlighieriThe mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.
Dante AlighieriTo run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.
Dante Alighieri... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)
Dante AlighieriI presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
Dante AlighieriSo that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.
Dante AlighieriBe like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
Dante AlighieriHeaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante AlighieriNot one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.
Dante AlighieriA rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.
Dante AlighieriConscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.
Dante AlighieriWorldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante AlighieriL'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)
Dante AlighieriThe human race finds itself in a better situation when it has the higher level of freedom.
Dante AlighieriBecause there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
Dante AlighieriNothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
Dante AlighieriI am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.
Dante Alighieri