Being by such a noble lover kissed, This one, who ne’er from me shall be divided, Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating. — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 5

And said I: ‘Father, since thou washest me Of that sin into which I now must fall, The promise long with the fulfilment short Will make thee triumph in thy lofty seat.’ Francis came afterward, when I was dead, For me; but one of the black Cherubim Said to him: ‘Take him not; do me no wrong; He must come down among my servitors, — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 27

Therefore look well around, and thou shalt see Things that will credence give unto my speech.” I heard on all sides lamentations uttered, — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 13

Pressed out the tears so that they bathed their cheeks. To them I turned me, and, “O people, certain,” Began I, “of beholding the high light, Which your desire has solely in its care, So may grace speedily dissolve the scum Upon your consciences, that limpidly Through them descend the river of the mind, — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 13

As the sun doth the rose, when it becomes As far unfolded as it hath the power. Therefore I pray, and thou assure me, father, — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 22

My greedy eyes still wandered up to heaven, Still to that point where slowest are the stars, Even as a wheel the nearest to its axle. — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 8

Upon your consciences, that limpidly Through them descend the river of the mind, Tell me, for dear ’twill be to me and gracious, — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 13

Of something else may truly be called just. I saw the daughter of Latona shining Without that shadow, which to me was cause — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 22

Naked of me short while the flesh had been, Before within that wall she made me enter, To bring a spirit from the circle of Judas; — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 9

Ah, savage company! but in the church With saints, and in the tavern with the gluttons! Ever upon the pitch was my intent, — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 22

Who affirms without distinction, or denies, As well in one as in the other case; Because it happens that full often bends Current opinion in the false direction, And then the feelings bind the intellect. Far more than uselessly he leaves the shore, (Since he returneth not the same he went,) Who fishes for the truth, and has no skill; — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 13

But mark the circles to the most remote, Until thou shalt behold enthroned the Queen To whom this realm is subject and devoted.” — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 31

The sea I sail has never yet been passed; Minerva breathes, and pilots me Apollo, And Muses nine point out to me the Bears. — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 2

O Simon Magus, O forlorn disciples, Ye who the things of God, which ought to be The brides of holiness, rapaciously — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 19

In thee magnificence; in thee unites Whate’er of goodness is in any creature. Now doth this man, who from the lowest depth — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 33

But unto the last Bolgia of the ten, For alchemy, which in the world I practised, Minos, who cannot err, has me condemned.” And to the Poet said I: “Now was ever So vain a people as the Sienese? Not for a certainty the French by far.” Whereat the other leper, who had heard me, — Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 29

To keep itself within the will divine, Whereby our very wishes are made one; So that, as we are station above station — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 3

So that I cannot from the thought withdraw me.” “Didst thou behold,” he said, “that old enchantress, Who sole above us henceforth is lamented? Didst thou behold how man is freed from her? Suffice it thee, and smite earth with thy heels, Thine eyes lift upward to the lure, that whirls The Eternal King with revolutions vast.” Even as the hawk, that first his feet surveys, — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 19

She with her prayers devout and with her sighs Has drawn me from the coast where one where one awaits, And from the other circles set me free. — Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 23

To represent transhumanise in words Impossible were; the example, then, suffice Him for whom Grace the experience reserves. If I was merely what of me thou newly Createdst, Love who governest the heaven, Thou knowest, who didst lift me with thy light! When now the wheel, which thou dost make eternal Desiring thee, made me attentive to it By harmony thou dost modulate and measure, — Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 1