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
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
As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully… — 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
As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Now had the sun to that horizon reach'd, That covers, with the most exalted point Of its meridian circle, Salem's walls; And… — 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 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
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