Dante Alighieri Quotes


The mind which is created quick to love, is responsive to everything that is pleasing, soon as by pleasure it is awakened into activity. Your apprehensive faculty draws an impression from a real object, and unfolds it within you, so that it makes the mind turn thereto. And if, being turned, it inclines towards it, that inclination is love; that is nature, which through pleasure is bound anew within you.


Citations

Alighieri, Dante. Purgatorio. Translated by Charles Eliot Norton, Houghton Mifflin, 1902, Canto XVIII, lines 19-27.

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Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri
  • Born:
  • Died: September 14, 1321
  • Nationality: Italian
  • Profession: Statesman, Poet, Language Theorist

Dante Alighieri (Italian: [ˈdante aliˈɡjɛːri]), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to simply as Dante (/ˈdɑːnteɪ, ˈdænteɪ, ˈdænti/, also US: /ˈdɑːnti/; c. 1265 – 1321), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered the most important poem of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.