The 60 Best Dante Alighieri quotes (Father of the Italian Language)
Dante Alighieri (born c. May 14/June 13, 1265, Florence [Italy] – died September 13/14, 1321, Ravenna), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy). He is considered the “Father of the Italian Language”, and In Italy he is known as il Sommo Poeta ('the Supreme Poet') and il Poeta. Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called the 'Tre Corone' (the 'Three Crowns') of Italian literature.
Do not be afraid; our fate cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.The path to paradise begins in hell.My course is set for an uncharted sea.The secret of getting things done is to act!There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.Follow your path, and let the people talk.Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.All hope abandon, ye who enter here!There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.Mankind is at its best when it is most free.Beauty awakens the soul to act.Nature is the art of God.In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.From a little spark may burst a flame.If you give people light, they will find their own way.The love that moves the sun and the other stars.If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.Everywhere is here and every when is now.The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
Love, which quickly arrests the gentle heart, Seized him with my beautiful form That was taken from me, in a manner which still grieves me.
Love, which pardons no beloved from loving, took me so strongly with delight in him That, as you see, it still abandons me not...
Dante Alighieri
Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
Dante Alighieri
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice.They yearn for what they fear for.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.Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.And we came forth to contemplate the stars.I love to doubt as well as know.A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.He listens well who takes notes.The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.I did not die, and yet I lost life's breath.Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.But the stars that marked our starting fall away.We must go deeper into greater pain,for it is not permitted that we stay.The devil is not as black as he is painted.If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.Small projects need much more help than great.The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.Pride, envy, avarice – these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!Will cannot be quenched against its will.
