Dante Alighieri

But here I can’t be still; and by the lines of this my Comedy, reader, I swear- and may my verse find favor for long years.

Dante Alighieri

But here I can't be still; and by the lines of this my Comedy, reader, I swear- and may my verse find favor for long years. Inferno, Canto XVI, lines 127-129

Dante Alighieri

Here one must leave behind all hesitation; here every cowardice must meet its death.

Dante Alighieri

Here sighs and lamentations and loud cries were echoing across the starless air, so that, as soon as I set out, I wept.

Dante Alighieri

Here sighs and lamentations and loud cries were echoing across the starless air, so that, as soon as I set out, I wept. Inferno, Canto III, lines 22-24

Dante Alighieri

May God so let you, reader, gather fruit from what you read. Inferno, Canto XX, lines 19-20

Dante Alighieri

Moving again, I tried the lonely slope- my firm foot was always the one below.

Dante Alighieri

Moving again, I tried the lonely slope- my firm foot was always the one below. Inferno, Canto I, lines 29-30

Dante Alighieri

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

Dante Alighieri

Silently, alone, no one escorting us, we made our way- one went before, one after- as Friars Minor when the walk together.

Dante Alighieri

Silently, alone, no one escorting us, we made our way- one went before, one after- as Friars Minor when the walk together. Inferno, Canto XXIII, lines 1-3

Dante Alighieri

The day was now departing; the dark air released the living beings of the earth from work and weariness.

Dante Alighieri

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of moral crisis, preserved their neutrality.

Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness. "Inferno," cto. 5, l. 121-3

Dante Alighieri

The time was the beginning of the morning; the sun was rising now in fellowship with the same stars that had escorted it when Divine Love first moved those things of beauty.

Dante Alighieri

When I had journeyed half of our life’s way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

Dante Alighieri

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. Inferno, Canto I, lines 1-3

Dante Alighieri