Dante Alighieri Quotes, Eye Quotes, Heaven Quotes

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

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They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

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But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

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The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

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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.

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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.

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Honor is the greatest poet.

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But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

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Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

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Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.

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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.

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There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

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Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.

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In His will, our peace.

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Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar.

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