And following its path, we took no careTo rest, but climbed: he first, then I-- so far,Through a round aperture I saw appearSome of the beautiful things that Heaven bears,Where we came forth, and once...
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
Until he shall have driven her back to Hell,
To get back up to the shining world from thereMy guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,And Following its path, we took no careTo rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far,through a round aperture...
Through me you pass into the city of woe:Through me you pass into eternal pain:Through me among the people lost for aye.Justice the founder of my fabric moved:To rear me was the task of power divine,S...
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people
Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.
The poets leave hell and again behold the stars.
Perceive ye not that we are worms, designedTo form the angelic butterfly, that goesTo judgment, leaving all defence behind?Why doth your mind take such exalted pose,Since ye, disabled, are as insects,...
O you, who in some pretty boat,Eager to listen, have been followingBehind my ship, that singing sails alongTurn back to look again upon your own shores;Tempt not the deep, lest unawares,In losing me,...
Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving,seized me so strongly with his charm that,as you see, it has not left me yet.Love brought us to one death.
Life is a vale of tears a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Infe...
Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.
And now, I pray you, tell me who you are: do not be harder than I've been with you that in the world your name may still endure.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
On march the banners of the King of Hell.
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
Nessun maggior doloreche ricordarsi del tempo felicenella miseria...
Madness it is to hope that human minds can ever understand the Infinite that comprehends Three Persons in One Being.Be satisfied with quia unexplained, O Human race! If you knew everything, no need...