At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.
All Being within this order, by the laws of its own nature is impelled to find its proper station round its Primal Cause.Thus every nature moves across the tide of the great sea of being to its own po...
Come follow me and leave the world to its babblings.
He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.
And he began, "What chance or destinyhas brought you here before your final day?And who is he who leads your pilgrimage?""Up there in life beneath the quiet starsI lost my way," I answered, "in a vall...
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
To course across more kindly waters nowmy talent's little vessel lifts her sails,leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom,in which the human soul is cleansed...
This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind.
This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs.
These dwell among the blackest souls, loaded down deep by sins of differing types. If you sink far enough, you'll see them all.
The only answer that I give to youis doing it, he said. A just requestis to be met in silence, by the act.
The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true.
The broken branch hissed loudly, and then thatwind was converted into these words: Briefly willyou be answered.When the fierce soul departs from the body fromwhich it has uprooted itself, Minos sends...
Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost.
I make no other answer than the act, the Master said: The only fit reply to a fit request is silence and the fact. [XXIV]
Here all suspicion must be abandoned, All cowardice must be extinct.
Being by such a noble lover kissed,This one, who ne'er from me shall be divided,Kissed me upon the mouth all palpitating.
Before me things created were none, save things
And I — my head oppressed by horror — said:Master, what is it that I hear? Who arethose people so defeated by their pain? And he to me: This miserable wayis taken by the sorry souls of thosewho l...