Stars Quotes by Dante Alighieri

14 Stars quotes by Dante Alighieri

Dante’s journey through heaven and hell was guided by celestial symbols. In this modest selection, fourteen lines, the poet contemplates stars as markers of divine order, offering a medieval perspective on the cosmos.

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From there we came outside and saw the stars

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“Love, that moves the sun and the other stars”

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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

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If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

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“Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.”

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Love can move the Sun and the stars.

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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first…

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e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that…

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L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)

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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as…

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I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that…

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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its…

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And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but…

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“Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!”

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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.

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Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

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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…

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The purpose of the whole (work) is to remove those who are living in this life from a state of wretchedness and lead them…

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“Noi leggeveamo un giorno per diletto Di Lancialotto, come amor lo strinse; Soli eravamo e senza alcun sospetto Per più fiate gli occhi ci…

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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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