Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2024 Update)
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351. “As mating doves that love calls to their nest glide through the air with motionless raised wings, borne by the sweet desire that fills each breast – Just so those spirits turned on the torn sky from the band where Dido whirls across the air; such was.”

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352. “She by her nature is cruel, so vicious she never can sate her voracious will, but, feasting well, is hungrier than before.”

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353. “Turn back and seek the safety of the shore; tempt not the deep, lest, losing unawares me and yourselves, you come to port no more.”

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354. “He eyed the snake. The reptile eyed him back. Each gave out smoke in streams – the wound of one, the serpent’s jaws. The smoke streams slowly met.”

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355. “For when the faculty of intellect is joined with brute force and with evil will, no man can win against such an alliance.”

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356. “Anyone who reads the original will wonder at times if this is really “poetry.” Very well, then, let it be prose, if one insists on folly.”

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357. “You taught me how a man becomes eternal;.”

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358. “In that part of the young year when the sun begins to warm its locks beneath Aquarius and nights grow shorter...”

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359. “The Divine Comedy is classically referred to as the epitome, the supreme expression of the Middle Ages.”

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360. “I made a gallows of my house.”

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361. “The blank-verse paragraph in English, as nearly as I can determine, runs to an average of about fourteen lines.”

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362. “Fear not: for of our passage none Hath power to disappoint us, by such high Authority permitted.”

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363. “But if it is prose, it is prose of a previously unknown order, for the depth and multiplicity of mind that seem to function at every choice have not been matched in any piece of Western writing.”

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364. “T. S. Eliot said that the last cantos of Heaven were as great as poetry can ever get.”

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365. “The Comedy is a glorification of the ways of God, but it is also a sharp and great-minded protest at the ways in which men have thwarted the divine plan.”

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366. “Repentance fails? There can’t be absolution, nor penitence when willing ill goes on. That is, by contradiction, impossibile.”

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367. “It cannot be that any eye, still clutched by mist and murkiness, should meet the first of ministers who’ll come from Paradise.”

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368. “Ah! what caution must men use With those who look not at the deed alone, But spy into the thoughts with subtle skill!”

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369. “Dante does, to be sure, write any number of run-on tercets, but the threeline unit remains firm as the rigorous basic measure of his way of writing.”

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370. “Soy el que fui siempre.”

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371. “Form, in its interrelations, is the most speaking element.”

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372. “The young explorer from medieval Christendom went doggedly on from one work to another which he had seen mentioned, without adequate teachers, courses, reference works, or indeed, the.”

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373. “In us, imagination is too mean for such great heights. And that’s no miracle. For no eye ever went beyond the sun.”

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374. “Great flames are kindled where the small sparks fly.”

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375. “English “broadcast” once meant specifically “a way of sowing” and was borrowed by radio as an analogy.”

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376. “Multa promittite, pauca servate de promissis.”

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377. “As puffed out sails fall when the mast gives way and flutter to a self-convulsing heap – so collapsed Plutus into that dead clay.”

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378. “Dante’s Cantos average about 140 lines. As a general thing he requires no more than twenty or thirty lines to identify the sinner and to describe the punishment.”

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379. “In la palude va c’ha nome Stige.”

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380. “And you will taste the saltiness of bread when offered by another’s hand – as, too, how hard it is to climb a stranger’s stair.”

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