Quotes About Alighieri

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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

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]."

I felt for the tormented whirlwindsDamned for their carnal sinsCommitted when they let their passions rule their reason.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.

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

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

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

He goes seeking liberty, which is so dear, as he knows who for it renounces life.

That with him were, what time the Love Divine

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

Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades"—bodiless souls trapped between life and death.

Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.

And all the while one spirit uttered this, The other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, And fell, even as a dead body falls.