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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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In that part of the book of my memory before the which is little that can be read, there is a rubric, saying, Incipit Vita Nova. Under such rubric I find written many things and among them the words which I purpose to copy into this little book if not all of them, at the least their substance.
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A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
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Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!
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At this high moment, ability failed my capacity to describe.
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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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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.
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What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
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O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
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Beauty awakens the soul to act.
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Without hope we live in desire.
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These dwell among the blackest souls,loaded down deep by sins of differing types.If you sink far enough,you'll see them all.
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He is not always at ease who laughs.
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I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
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At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.
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The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
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Go right on and listen as thou goest.
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Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
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For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.
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As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.
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It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things
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