Dante Alighieri Quotes - Page 4

Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.

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

I found myself within a forest dark.

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.

We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it.

He is not always at ease who laughs.

Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!

Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment.

I wept not — so to stone I grew within.

Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.

The mouse had fallen in with evil cats.

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

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 here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.