Dante Alighieri Quotes
An Italian poet of the Middle Ages.
(c. 1265 - 1321)
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
[Despair]
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
[Able]
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Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
[History]
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
[Beauty]
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Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.
[World]
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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
[Time]
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He listens well who takes notes.
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He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
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Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
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I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
[Goals]
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I love to doubt as well as know.
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I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
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Nature is the art of God.
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No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
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