"But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars"

"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 (Follow your road and let the people say)"

"Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars."

"I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath"

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

"As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall."

"I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?"

"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."

"The experience of this sweet life."

"Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil"

"I found myself within a forest dark,"

"Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it has not left me yet. Love brought us to one death."

"There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair"

"All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God."

"In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him."

"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."

"Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing."

"Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom."

"Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle."

"The poets leave hell and again behold the stars."

"If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven"

"My will and my desire were both revolved, as is a wheel in even motion driven, by Love, which moves the sun and other stars."

"This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs."

"We were men once, though we've become trees"

"Fate's arrow, when expected, travels slow."

"Oh blind, oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity whcih spurs as so in the short mortal life and steeps as through all eternity."

"If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought."

"The well heeded well heard."

"Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving", "seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, that, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me."

"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."

"Faith is the substance of the things we hope for, And evidence of those that are not seen..."

"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."

"Soon you will be where your own eyes will see the source and cause and give you their own answer to the mystery."

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

"Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way into eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost."

"That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit."

"That with him were, what time the Love Divine"

"The weapons of divine justice are blunted by the confession and sorrow of the offender."

"Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here."

"And I was told about this torture, that it was the Hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire."

"Now our minds are like smoke, then they shall be like fire."

"Be as a tower, that, firmly set, Shakes not its top for any blast that blows!"

"Until he shall have driven her back to Hell,"

"This mountain’s of such sort that climbing it is hardest at the start; but as we rise, the slope grows less unkind."

"If you, free as you are of every weight had stayed below, then that would be as strange as living flame on earth remaining still." And then she turned her gaze up toward the heavens."