Quotes from Dante Alighieri

He who know most grieves most for wasted time.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

That with him were, what time the Love Divine

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

Love insists the loved loves back

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.

He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.

From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.

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.

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things.

So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.

Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

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.

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

I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?

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

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