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All hope abandon, ye who enter here. - [Despair] And oft a retrospect delights the mind. - [Retrospection] As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors. - [Autumn] But if, as morning rises, dreams are true. - [Dreams] Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. - [Conscience] Deed done is well begun. - [End] 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. - [Fame] Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal. - [Beauty] I love sometimes to doubt, as well as know. - [Doubt] No greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. - [Grief] O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below! - [Anxiety] Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. - [Dependence] Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth. - [Fame] The great refusal. [It., Il gran rifiuto.] - Inferno (canto III, LX), supposedly referring to Celestive V, elected Pope in 1294 [Ambition] There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about. - Inferno (canto XVIII, l. 1) [Hell] In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray, Gone from the path direct. [It., Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, Che la diritta via era smarrita.] - Inferno (I) [Life] Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [It., Lasciate ogni speranza ch'entrate.] - Inferno (III, 1, 9) [Hope] This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. [It., Questo misero modo Tengon l'anime triste di coloro Che visser senza infamia e senza lodo.] - Inferno (III, 36) [Life] Still desiring, we live without hope. [It., Senza speme vivemo in desio.] - Inferno (IV, 42) [Hope] Love, that all gentle hearts so quickly know. [It., Amor, ch'al cor gentil ratto s'apprende.] - Inferno (V, 100) [Love] Love, which insists that love love shall mutual be. [It., Amor ch' a nullo amato amar perdona.] - Inferno (V, 103) [Love] There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. [It., Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria.] - Inferno (V, 121), (Longfellow's translation) [Sorrow] Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. [It., Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono Le tre faville che hanno i cori accesi.] - Inferno (VI, 74) [Evil] This audacity of theirs is not new. [It., Questa lor tracotanza non e nuova.] - Inferno (VIII, 124) [Audacity] Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote, Seque, come il maestro fa il discente; Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.] - Inferno (XI, 103) [Art] Displaying page 1 of 3 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3
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