I am the way into the city of woe. Dante Alighieri More Quotes by Dante Alighieri More Quotes From Dante Alighieri A backward glance can often lift the heart. Dante Alighieri lifts glances heart If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity. Dante Alighieri thieves generosity men Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame. Dante Alighieri flames doe blood 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 the other stars Dante Alighieri stars desire moving Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom. Dante Alighieri soul twilight men All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. Dante Alighieri september flower summer Will cannot be quenched against its will. Dante Alighieri willpower Often a retrospect delights the mind. Dante Alighieri retrospect delight mind Astrology, the noblest of sciences. Dante Alighieri astrology Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing. Dante Alighieri sweet-love heart sweet Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. Dante Alighieri ice darkness fire He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. Dante Alighieri divine-comedy amor moving All hope abandon, ye who enter here! Dante Alighieri divine-comedy inferno pedestal My course is set for an uncharted sea. Dante Alighieri uncharted courses sea Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes] Dante Alighieri abandon motto And we came forth to contemplate the stars. Dante Alighieri contemplating stars Love can move the Sun and the stars. Dante Alighieri stars sun moving I wept not — so to stone I grew within. Dante Alighieri weeping grew stones No one thinks of how much blood it costs. Dante Alighieri cost blood thinking The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream. Dante Alighieri dream memories lying
