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Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness
Dante Alighieri
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Dante Alighieri
Age: 56 †
Born: 1265
Born: June 6
Died: 1321
Died: September 22
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O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!
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Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.
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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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Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent and here were every fruit and never-ending spring these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.
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The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.
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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
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Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can.
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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
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He who shall never be divided from me kissed my mouth all trembling.
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Give unto us this day the daily manna Without which, in this desert where we dwell, He must go backward who would most advance.
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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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