So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that… — 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
I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
…all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God. — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to… — 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 sospinse Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso; Ma solo un punto fu quel che ci vinse. Quando leggemmo il disiato riso Esser baciato da cotanto amante, Questi, che mai da me non fia diviso, La bocca… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share
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
