Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes] — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates; Even now it leaves… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other. — 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
“how short a time the fire of love endures in woman if frequent sight and touch do not rekindle it.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Hasty opinion too often points the wrong way, and then affection for one's own opinion binds up the intellect.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened… — 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