Dante Alighieri Quotes - Page 10

Will cannot be quenched against its will.

Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

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.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

O how far remov'd, Predestination! is thy foot from such As see not the First Cause entire: and ye, O mortal men! be wary how ye judge: For we, who see the Maker, know not yet The number of the chosen; and esteem Such scantiness of knowledge our delight: For all good is, in that primal good, Concentrate; and God's will and ours are one.

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

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, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

Behold a God more powerful than I who comes to rule over me.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.

Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

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

No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope.