Dante Alighieri Quotes About Water

Quotes about: Water

• Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water.

  Dante Alighieri

  Quilts, Lying, Air

• 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

• And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Water, Turns, Shore

  Dante Alighieri, John D Sinclair (1961). “The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

• To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom, in which the human soul is cleansed of sin, becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sea, Water, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

• Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Air, Water

• To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

  Dante Alighieri

  Running, Sea, Water

  Dante Alighieri (1902). “The Divine Comedy”

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