Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321) -
Italian National Epic Poet
Durante Degli Alighieri, born in 13th century A.D., is better known by all as Dante Alighieri, or simply Dante. He was a famous Italian poet from Florence. Presumably, a self educated person, his interests brought him to discover the beauty of Italian and Latin poetry of classical antiquity. In addition to his interests in writing verses, he was a keen up-to-date intellectual with international interests.
He was a great multitasking person of his times. Though having prime interests in poetry, he gave a boost to his career as a politician, doctor and a pharmacist as well. As a politician, though he couldn’t perform as per his abilities, yet he held various offices over a number of years in a city undergoing some political agitation. He was greatly admired as a poet by all. His work, THE DIVINE COMEDY, is truly one of the masterpieces of the global literature |
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Here are some of the quotes and quotations written by Durante Degli Alighieri :
For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
Dante Alighieri
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dante Alighieri
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Dante Alighieri
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Dante Alighieri
Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
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.
Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri
Follow your own star!
Dante Alighieri
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
Dante Alighieri
From a little spark may burst a flame.
Dante Alighieri
He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Dante Alighieri
I love to doubt as well as know.
Dante Alighieri
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.
Dante Alighieri
I wept not, so to stone within I grew.
Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
Dante Alighieri
Nature is the art of God.
Dante Alighieri
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Dante Alighieri
No one thinks of how much blood it costs.
Dante Alighieri
O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
Dante Alighieri
If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri
Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.
Dante Alighieri
Small projects need much more help than great.
Dante Alighieri
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
Dante Alighieri
The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
Dante Alighieri
Will cannot be quenched against its will.
Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.
Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
Dante Alighieri
We must overact our part in some measure, in order to produce any effect at all.
Dante Alighieri
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.
Dante Alighieri
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