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Dante Alighieri

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Dante Alighieri Quotes

Total quotes: 5

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Dante Alighieri

Birthname

AKA: Dante Alighieri

Educated At: University Of Bologna

Nationality: Republic Of Florence

Occupations: Prosaist, Political Theorist, Philosopher, Politician, Writer

Religion: Catholicism

Spouse: Gemma Donati

Total quotes: 5

“Already desiring to explore inside and out
the divine forest, so dense and alive,
which tempered the new day before my eyes,
without delay I left the bank, proceeding slowly through the country
whose ground exuded fragrance everywhere.”

— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio

Tagged: Forests, Nature

“I saw faces all given to love, adorned by the Light of Another, and by their own smile.”

— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

Tagged: Theological Perfection, Love, Power of Social Connection, Connected, Smile

“We were received into the elements of the eternal pearl as water takes light to itself, with no change in its substance.”

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Vol. II: Purgatory

Tagged: Dissolve, Absorb, Transubstantiation, Metaphors, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences

“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.”

— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)

Tagged: first lines of books

“Within the profound and shining subsistence of the lofty Light appeared to me three circles of three colors and one magnitude, and one seemed reflected by the other, as rainbow by rainbow, and the third seemed fire breathed forth equally from the one and the other.”

— Dante Alighieri, Paradiso

Tagged: Three Is The Number, Color, Visions, Word Failure

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