Top 380 Dante Alighieri Quotes (2025 Update)
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351. “How did you get yourself in such a pickle?”

— Dante Alighieri

352. “How cautious we must always be when faced with those who, far beyond observing deeds, can gaze in wisdom on our very thoughts.”

— Dante Alighieri

353. “So that their fear is turned into desire.”

— Dante Alighieri

354. “I fell to thinking about my own life, now so debilitated, and reecting how short this life is, even in health, I began to weep about our wretched state. Sighing deeply, I said to myself: ‘One day, inevitably, even your most gracious Beatrice must die.’ This thought threw me into such a state of bewilderment that I closed my eyes, and I began, like a person who is delirious, to be tormented by these fantasies.”

— Dante Alighieri

355. “Zoals bloempjes die door de vrieskou van de nacht gebogen en gesloten zijn, wanneer de zon haar stralen over hen uitgiet alle opengaan en zich oprichten op hun stengels, zo hief ik mij toen op uit mijn neerslachtigheid.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

357. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

362. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

366. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

369. “I made a gallows of my house.”

— Dante Alighieri

370. “Soy el que fui siempre.”

— Dante Alighieri

371. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

373. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri

379. “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.”

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Dante Alighieri