Dante Alighieri Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Men

• 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

  Dream, Powerful, Fall

  Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.369, Penguin

• Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

  Dante Alighieri

  Life, Heart, Gentle

  Dante Alighieri (1862). “Dante's Divina commedia, tr. in the metre and triple rhyme of the original, with notes, by mrs. Ramsay”, p.34

• There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slimethey speak their piece, end it, and start again:'Sullen were we in the air made sweet by the Sun;in the glory of his shining our hearts poureda bitter smoke. Sullen were we begun;sullen we lie forever in this ditch.'This litany they gargle in their throatsas if they sand, but lacked the words and pitch.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.80, Penguin

• Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, May, Mankind

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

• Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Justice, Bows

• A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

  Dante Alighieri

  Prayer, Heart, Grace

  Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

• Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Evil

  "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song VI, 74, 1321.

• Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Sowing, Exclusion

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.272, Vintage

• The truth thy speech doth show, within my heart reproves the swelling pride.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Pride, Speech

  "The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio". Poem by Dante Alighieri, Canto XI, 1321.

• Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sweet, Sweet Love, Heart

• A backward glance can often lift the heart.

  Dante Alighieri

  Heart, Glances, Lifts

  Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.33, Indiana University Press

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