He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. Dante Alighieri More Quotes by Dante Alighieri More Quotes From Dante Alighieri I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon. Dante Alighieri light sight long Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil Dante Alighieri pity Midway upon the journey of our life Dante Alighieri midway divine-comedy journey I made my own house be my gallows. Dante Alighieri gallows made house Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure. Dante Alighieri larks singing air 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 the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch. Dante Alighieri heart sweet lying Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing. Beatrice - Canto V 40-42 Dante Alighieri heard mind doe The mouse had fallen in with evil cats. Dante Alighieri fallen cat evil The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride. Dante Alighieri speech pride heart A man's renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes. Dante Alighieri hue fame men Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary Dante Alighieri sowing exclusion heart There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about. Dante Alighieri iron wall circles No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope. Dante Alighieri may love men Small projects need much more help than great. Dante Alighieri projects helping needs Abandon every hope, you who enter. Dante Alighieri abandon When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. Dante Alighieri half journey doe As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight. Dante Alighieri circles squares sight I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more. Dante Alighieri savages dark littles Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me. Dante Alighieri desert beloved men Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. Dante Alighieri virtue branches doe
