That came at first between it and the Griffin,
Turned themselves to the car, as to their peace.
And one of them, as if by Heaven commissioned,
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 30
Dante Quotes
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Quotes from Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy • Inferno • Purgatorio • Paradiso
Which for the Jews was a malignant seed.”
And thereupon I saw Virgilius marvel
O’er him who was extended on the cross
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 23
One waiting thus, even as it comes to pass
One frog remains, and down another dives;
And Graffiacan, who most confronted him,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 22
Against the Sienese, make sharp thine eye
Tow’rds me, so that my face well answer thee,
And thou shalt see I am Capocchio’s shade,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 29
O Muses, O high genius, now assist me!
O memory, that didst write down what I saw,
Here thy nobility shall be manifest!
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 2
Howe’er it weeps thereat and is indignant.
The just are two, and are not understood there;
Envy and Arrogance and Avarice
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 6
But said: “Be still and let the years roll round;”
So I can only say, that lamentation
Legitimate shall follow on your wrongs.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 9
I was bent downward, but my living eyes
Could not attain the bottom, for the dark;
Wherefore I: “Master, see that thou arrive
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 24
That after it the memory cannot go.
Truly whatever of the holy realm
I had the power to treasure in my mind
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 1
Which maketh servant strong before good master.
I seated me upon those monstrous shoulders;
I wished to say, and yet the voice came not
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 17
‘Eli’ he then was called, and that is proper,
Because the use of men is like a leaf
On bough, which goeth and another cometh.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 26
And thus the shade that questioned was of this
Himself acquitted: “I know not; but truly
’Tis fit the name of such a valley perish;
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 14
We were attentive still unto the trunk,
Thinking that more it yet might wish to tell us,
When by a tumult we were overtaken,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 13
Those who, in reasoning, to the bottom went,
Were of this innate liberty aware,
Therefore bequeathed they Ethics to the world.
Supposing, then, that from necessity
Springs every love that is within you kindled,
Within yourselves the power is to restrain it.
The noble virtue Beatrice understands
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 18
Thou from a slave hast brought me unto freedom,
By all those ways, by all the expedients,
Whereby thou hadst the power of doing it.
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 31
Beneath, to give a passage to the scourged,
The Guide said: “Wait, and see that on thee strike
The vision of those others evil-born,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 18
Kindled in me a longing for their cause,
Never before with such acuteness felt;
Whence she, who saw me as I saw myself,
To quiet in me my perturbed mind,
Opened her mouth, ere I did mine to ask,
And she began: “Thou makest thyself so dull
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 1
Where just before I said, ‘where well one fattens,’
And where I said, ‘there never rose a second;’
And here ’tis needful we distinguish well.
The Providence, which governeth the world
With counsel, wherein all created vision
Is vanquished ere it reach unto the bottom,
(So that towards her own Beloved might go
— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto 11
That circumvallate that disconsolate city;
The walls appeared to me to be of iron.
Not without making first a circuit wide,
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Canto 8
What thou hast seen was that thou mayst not fail
To ope thy heart unto the waters of peace,
Which from the eternal fountain are diffused.
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto 15