Dante Alighieri Quotes

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.

I am the way into the city of woe,I am the way into eternal pain,I am the way to go among the lost.Justice caused my high architect to move,Divine omnipotence created me,The highest wisdom, and the primal love.Before me there were no created thingsBut those that last forever—as do I.Abandon all hope you who enter here.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.

The path to paradise begins in hell.

If you, free as you are of every weighthad stayed below, then that would be as strangeas living flame on earth remaining still."And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens.

This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.

…I am left with lessthan one drop of my blood that does not tremble.I recognize the the signs of the old flame.