Alighieri Dante
Quotations

"Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar."

- La Vita Nuova

 

": In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost."

- Canto I, line 1 The Inferno

 

"To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel."

- Canto I, line 1 Purgatorio

 

"Thou shalt prove how salt is the taste of another's bread and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs."

- Canto XVII, line 58 Paradiso