A great flame follows a little spark. Dante Alighieri More Quotes by Dante Alighieri More Quotes From Dante Alighieri Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. Dante Alighieri babblingfollow-meworld 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 whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars. Dante Alighieri starsspiritualmoving Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment. Dante Alighieri punishmentdeedslove Here let dead poetry rise once more to life. Dante Alighieri more-to-lifeliterature This miserable way Dante Alighieri angeltakensorry Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, Dante Alighieri togetherstepsneeds 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 joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..." Dante Alighieri fashionstarsmorning O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! Dante Alighieri anxietywingsmen Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy. Dante Alighieri onenessunityprinciples They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace. Dante Alighieri humilitypeacefather Follow your own star! Dante Alighieri being-yourselfstarsinspire How come I never meet any nice girls? Dante Alighieri nice-girlnicegirl You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal. Dante Alighieri palsassugly Consider that this day ne'er dawns again. Dante Alighieri this-daydawnenthusiasm ... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.) Dante Alighieri happy-timesmiserypain I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous. Dante Alighieri good-mangivingmen As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall. Dante Alighieri powerfuldreamfall And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes. Dante Alighieri shoreturnswater Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good. Dante Alighieri woodsjourneydark Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. Dante Alighieri grandchildrenableart
