Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you.

Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti._x000D_ (Follow your road and let the people say).

If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

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

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

The devil is not as black as he is painted.

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.

Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.

From there we came outside and saw the stars

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

As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.