Quote

But if, as morning rises, dreams are true.

Dante Alighieri

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
Author
Intellectual
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Political Theorist
Politician
Prosaist
Writer
Florence
Tuscany
Dante
Durante degli Alighieri
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri
Rises
Dreams
Morning
True
Dream

More quotes by Dante Alighieri

Image
Love, who insists that love shall mutual be, Link'd me to him with charm strong as our fates Even now it leaves me not, as thou dost see.
Dante Alighieri
Image
There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.
Dante Alighieri
Image
Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.
Dante Alighieri
Image
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible.
Dante Alighieri
Image
Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly.
Dante Alighieri
Image
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.
Dante Alighieri
Image
The secret of getting things done is to act!
Dante Alighieri
Image
It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.
Dante Alighieri
Image
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
Dante Alighieri
Image
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
Dante Alighieri
Image
I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
Dante Alighieri
Image
As one who sees in dreams and wakes to find the emotional impression of his vision still powerful while its parts fade from his mind - Just such am I, having lost nearly all the vision itself, while in my heart I feel the sweetness of it yet distill and fall.
Dante Alighieri
Image
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes]
Dante Alighieri
Image
Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
Dante Alighieri
Image
He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
Dante Alighieri
Image
O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!
Dante Alighieri
Image
Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.
Dante Alighieri
Image
Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.
Dante Alighieri
Image
To course across more kindly waters now my 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 of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.
Dante Alighieri
Image
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
Dante Alighieri