Dante Alighieri

And thence we issued forth to see again the stars.

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

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

Dante Alighieri

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

Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Dante Alighieri

Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.

Dante Alighieri

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

Dante Alighieri

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions.

Dante Alighieri

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

Dante Alighieri