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.
Dante AlighieriLove, 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.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
Dante AlighieriStichwörter: inspirational heaven
As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall.
Dante AlighieriBeauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante AlighieriStichwörter: beauty
But the stars that marked our starting fall away.
We must go deeper into greater pain,
for it is not permitted that we stay.
And I — my head oppressed by horror — said:
"Master, what is it that I hear? Who are
those people so defeated by their pain?"
And he to me: "This miserable way
is taken by the sorry souls of those
who lived without disgrace and without praise.
They now commingle with the coward angels,
the company of those who were not rebels
nor faithful to their God, but stood apart.
The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened,
have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them —
even the wicked cannot glory in them.
Stichwörter: indifference indecision mediocrity
I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more...
Dante AlighieriMy course is set for an uncharted sea.
Dante AlighieriFor she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
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