Quotes from Dante Alighieri

Let us not speak of them; but look, and pass on.

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts…Beyond the range of human intellect.

And in His will is our peace.

And thence we came forth, to see again the stars.

Everyone confusedly conceives of a good in which the mind may be at rest, and desires it; wherefore everyone strives to attain to it.

Overcoming me with the light of a smile, she [Beatrice] said to me: "Turn and listen, for not only in my eyes is Paradise."

For to lose time is most displeasing to him who knows most.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

[Beatrice] who shall be a light between truth and intellect.

Ye that are of good understanding, note the doctrine that is hidden under the veil of the strange verses!

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less.

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.

So my conscience chide me not, I am ready for Fortune as she wills.

Unless, before then, the prayer assist me which rises from a heart that lives in grace: what avails the other, which is not heard in heaven?

The experience of this sweet life.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

In that part of the book of my memory before which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, "Incipit Vita Nova [The new life begins]."