That precious fruit which all men eagerly go searching for on many different boughs will give,today, peace to your hungry soul.
That infinite and indescribable good which is there above races as swiftly to love as a ray of light to a bright body.It gives of itself according to the ardor it finds, so that as charity spreads far...
It was the hour of morning,when the sun mounts with those starsthat shone with it when God's own lovefirst set in motion those fair things
Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow.
As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
This is Nimrod, because of whose vile plan the world no longer speaks a single tongue.
It is his fate to enter every door. This has been willed where what is willed must be, and is not yours to question. Say no more.
Through me the way into the suffering city,Through me the way into eternal pain,Through me the way that runs among the lost.
The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real objec...
Not foliage green, but of a fusk colour,Not branches smooth, but gnarled and intertanglednot apple-tress were there, but thorns with poison.
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.
Until he shall have driven her back to Hell,
Though every city shall he hunt her down,Until he shall driven her back to Hell,There from whence envy first did let her loose.
The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.
Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft,Why fall ye thus before a little wind?
Lost are we, and are only so far punished,That without hope we live on in desire.
Lady, you who are so great, so powerful,that who seeks grace without recourse to youwould have his wish fly upward without wings.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, whi...
But the stars that marked our starting fall away.We must go deeper into greater pain,for it is not permitted that we stay.