Dante Alighieri Quotes About Heart

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

    "Divine Comedy". Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song VI, 74, 1321.
  • A backward glance can often lift the heart.

    Dante Alighieri (2000). “Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy: Purgatory. Italian text and verse translation”, p.33, Indiana University Press
  • Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary

    Dante Alighieri (2013). “The Divine Comedy: The Unabridged Classic”, p.272, Vintage
  • Love and the gentle heart are but the same thing.

  • 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.

    Fall  
    Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.369, Penguin
  • Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?

    Dante Alighieri (1948). “Dante”
  • Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know.

    Dante Alighieri (1862). “Dante's Divina commedia, tr. in the metre and triple rhyme of the original, with notes, by mrs. Ramsay”, p.34
  • Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.

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

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

    "The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio". Poem by Dante Alighieri, Canto XI, 1321.
  • 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 (2003). “The Divine Comedy”, p.80, Penguin
  • 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 (1948). “Dante”
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