Heart Quotes by Dante Alighieri

13 Heart quotes by Dante Alighieri

Dante’s verses give the heart a grand, almost celestial stage. Though only thirteen, each line carries the weight of his medieval epic, blending love’s fire with spiritual yearning.

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Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

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Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

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Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

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A backward glance can often lift the heart.

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The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

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Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts.

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Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

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Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

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My mother used to always tell me that my father was a man who fought for the weak. He had courage and…

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A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is…

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As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade…

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Amor, ch'al cor gentile ratto s'apprende prese costui de la bella persona che mi fu tolta; e 'l modo ancor m'offende. Amor,…

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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air…

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Love can move the Sun and the stars.

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Oh foolish desires of mortals! How weak are the reasons that lead us to not take off our flight from the ground.

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“On march the banners of the King of Hell.”

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

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Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

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It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us.

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