Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone. Dante Alighieri More Quotes by Dante Alighieri More Quotes From Dante Alighieri Deed done is well begun. Dante Alighieri deeds-done deeds done The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact. Dante Alighieri silence life facts The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; Dante Alighieri angel sports order I love to doubt as well as know. Dante Alighieri internet doubt love I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate? Dante Alighieri fate sorrow desire We are but a day in this world, and in that day the fashion is changed a thousand times: all seek liberty, yet all deprive themselves of it. Dante Alighieri liberty fashion world Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible. Dante Alighieri chimes self sea I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. Dante Alighieri passion sin reason Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice. Dante Alighieri ice fire heaven If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy. Dante Alighieri flames depth answers You shall leave everything you love. Dante Alighieri As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. Dante Alighieri phantoms shadow fall Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen? Dante Alighieri judgment butterfly angel Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know. Dante Alighieri gentle heart life There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind. Dante Alighieri language-words pain dark That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit. Dante Alighieri spirit Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. Dante Alighieri idols blow wind …all things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God. Dante Alighieri form all-things order To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven. Dante Alighieri sea water heaven To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel. Dante Alighieri sea running water
