Quotes About Dante

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

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage: "Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

Commentaries and studies have been multiplied upon the Divine Comedy, the work of DANTE, and yet no one, so far as we know, has pointed out its especial character. The work of the great Ghibellin is a declaration of war against the Papacy, by bold revelations of the Mysteries.

A tutti l'"humilis ytalus Dantes Alagherii florentinus et exul inmeritus", esule cioè senza colpa, come ormai da tempo amava definirsi, augurava la pace; li invitava a rallegrarsi per il sorgere di un nuovo giorno e l'arrivo di un nuovo Mosè; ed esortava i discendenti dei Longobardi a ricordarsi di essere innanzitutto Troiani e Romani.

Il soggiorno veronese è davvero il primo momento in cui Dante dovette rendersi conto di ...come sa di sale lo pane altrui, e come è duro calle lo scendere e 'l salir per l'altrui scale.

Blood hell, what happened to you?" - Dante The dark wisard and I had a mild disagreement." -Viper What sort of disagreement?" -Dante I thought he should be dead and he disagreed." -Viper

Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.

Keeping low to avoid the branches that blocked their paths, they scurried through the dark. Dante with his usual elegant silence and Abby crashing behind him like a bull elephant with a tranquilizer stuck in its butt.

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

The elemental human desire to add meaning and permanence to life-to avoid the fate rendered by Dante as no more memorial/ Than foam in water or smoke upon the wind - take on additional depth and urgency for those who have intense moods and brooding dispositions.

'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'

The last line of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante is faced with the vision of God Himself, is a sentiment that is still easily understandable by anyone familiar with so-called modern Italian. Dante writes that God is not merely a blinding vision of glorious light, but that He is, most of all, l'amour che move il sole e l'altre stelle...'The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Dante writes that God is not merely a blinding vision of glorious light, but that He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle… "The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Medusa… the sight of her face turned people into stone. [Here she is] perhaps a symbol of the ultimate sin, despair, which would petrify Dante and so trap him in Hell for ever.

The weather was turning cold and I remember that Dante was using nothing but natural light as his electric department was away, prepping the scene in the cave. We stayed on that rock for the whole day.

My background isn't in social software; it's in online community, social networks, personal publishing, blogging, self-expression on the Web. I got on the Internet in the 1980s, and the magic moment for me arose from my being a literature geek, especially Dante and Shakespeare.

I disconnected as a sleepy Seth stepped out of the bedroom. "Who's Dante? Was that a collect call to the Inferno?" "They won't accept the charges," I murmured.

The notion of the Bible as literature, though particularly contaminated in English by its use as a rubric for superficial college courses and for dubious publishers' packages, is needlessly concessive and condescending toward literature in any language. (It would at the very least be gratuitous to speak of Dante as literature, given the assured literary status of Dante's great poem, though the Divine Comedy is more explicitly theological, or religious, than most of the Bible.)

There are countless circles of hell; believers never penetrate the ninth circle.

Not enough has been written about the treachery of middle life," the old man mused, his voice carrying over the wind. "Dante went to hell to escape it, and I've seen plenty of other men do the same, metaphorically speaking. Be patient, Dexter. Wars have a way of shifting the terrain into configurations we can't foresee, hard as we might try. This is no time for bold moves.

Thus Dante's motto over Inferno applies with equal force to marriage. Ye who enter here leave all hope behind.

Well, we don't have to work often for this to be much trouble." The Padrone smiled. "Besides, even Dante described the Florentines as greedy, envious, and arrogant people. It is good to keep a bit of distance from this city.