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To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

Dante Alighieri

Beautiful, Stars, Tunnels

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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

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No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

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Memories, Sadness, Joy

Dante Alighieri (2009). “I'll Tell what I Saw: Images from Dante's Divine Comedy”

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Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.

Dante Alighieri

Literature, More To Life

Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.302, Penguin

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One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

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Needs, Harm, Ought

Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 02”

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"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other.

Dante Alighieri

Spiritual, Mirrors, Light

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It is no learning to understand what you do not retain.

Dante Alighieri

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Honor is the greatest poet.

Dante Alighieri

Honor, Poet

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A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.

Dante Alighieri

Hurt, Clouds, White

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They find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.

Dante Alighieri

Peace, Father, Humility

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So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces.

Dante Alighieri

Rocks, Broken, Pieces

Dante Alighieri, Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander (2000). “Inferno”, Doubleday Books

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My course is set for an uncharted sea.

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Sea, Uncharted, Courses

Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.8, Penguin

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Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.

Dante Alighieri

Justice, Doe, Pinnacle

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As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.

Dante Alighieri

Fall, Light, Honor

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Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

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Wings, Reason, Following

Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good.

Dante Alighieri

Dark, Journey, Woods

Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (1995). “Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition”, p.19, Indiana University Press

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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

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Arrows, Essence, Two

Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.325, Penguin

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Stand firm as the tower that never shakes its top whatever wind may blow.

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Blow, Wind, Towers

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Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch.

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Doe, Branches, Virtue

Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”

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In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.

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Men, Corn, Fields

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Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

Dante Alighieri

Spiritual, Stars, Moving

Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 33, l. 145 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire.

Dante Alighieri

Desire, Lost, Without Hope

Dante Alighieri (2015). “The Inferno”, p.34, Race Point Pub

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In His will, our peace.

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And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

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Dark, Air, Hands

Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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These have not the hope to die.

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Death, Dying, Dies

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Born: 1265
Died: September 14, 1321
Occupation: Poet
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