Dante Alighieri Quotes About Butterflies

Quotes about: Butterflies

• Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Angel, Judgment

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri

• O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne?

  Dante Alighieri

  Inspirational, Christian, Believe

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.393, Penguin

• Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Mean, Leaving

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hall Grandgent (1947). “The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Complete”

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