Dante Alighieri Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• 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

  Pain, Dark, Language Words

• At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain.

  Dante Alighieri

  Pain, Memories, Grief

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The Inferno: A Verse Rendering for the Modern Reader by John Ciardi”, Signet

• 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

  Language, Muse, Destroying

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