Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars") — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars) — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share
“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share
Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share
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… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share
The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share
“Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse; Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto Per più fiate gli occhi ci… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share
Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share
Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share
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