Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment.… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs… — 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 Image
“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
