Dante Alighieri Quotes

Dante Alighieri's collection of the most iconic quotations and thoughts

Dante Alighieri's collection of the most iconic quotations and thoughts.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground.

A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Follow your own star!

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

About Dante Alighieri:

was a major Italian poet of the late Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

In Italy he is called il Sommo Poeta ("the Supreme Poet") and il Poeta. He, Petrarch, and Boccaccio are also called "the three fountains" and "the three crowns". Dante is also called "the Father of the Italian language".