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Sun Quotes by Dante Alighieri
- Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel…
- And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which…
- There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by…
- ...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel…
- As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems,…
- As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just…
- It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion…
- L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)
- But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and…
More Sun Quotes
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but… — Gamaliel Bailey
- Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us,… — James A. Baldwin
- The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher
- The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in… — Joseph Addison
- Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus. — Alexander Graham Bell
- The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which… — Cyrano de Bergerac
- I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the… — Cyrano de Bergerac