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Dante Alighieri Quotes about Heaven

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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

Dante Alighieri
Eye, Heaven, Wheels

If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven

Dante Alighieri
Heaven, Natural, Bent

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

Dante Alighieri
Eye, Heaven, Earth

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

Dante Alighieri
Fire, Ice, Heaven
"The Divine Comedy".

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

Dante Alighieri
Stars, Destiny, Heaven
Divina Commedia "Inferno" canto 15, l. 55 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

Dante Alighieri
Eye, Circles, Heaven
Dante Alighieri (1991). “Purgatorio”, p.153, Princeton University Press

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth.

Dante Alighieri
Rivers, Heaven, Grace
"Purgatorio (Divine Comedy, Book 2)". Book by Dante Alighieri (Canto XIII), 1321.

To 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 Alighieri
Sea, Water, Heaven
Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

Dante Alighieri
Blow, Light, Heaven
Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.163, Indiana University Press

He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.

Dante Alighieri
Love, Land, Heaven
Dante Alighieri (2016). “Paradiso”, p.182, Bantam Classics

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