Dante Alighieri Quotes about Heart

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Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

Dante Alighieri

Heart, Pride, Evil

"Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song VI, 74, 1321.

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

Dante Alighieri

Heart, Pride, Men

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

Dante Alighieri

Sweet, Sweet Love, Heart

A backward glance can often lift the heart.

Dante Alighieri

Heart, Glances, Lifts

Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.33, Indiana University Press

Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

Dante Alighieri

Heart, Justice, Bows

The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

Dante Alighieri

Heart, Pride, Speech

"The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio". Poem by Dante Alighieri, Canto XI, 1321.

There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

Dante Alighieri

Sweet, Lying, Heart

Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.80, Penguin