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Alighieri Dante Quotes



Quotes by Alighieri Dante - (12 quotes)

Dante - From the Art category:

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. (Dante)

Dante - From the Beginning category:

A great flame follows a little spark. (Dante)

Dante - From the Confidence category:

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. (Dante)

Dante - From the Doubt category:

I love to doubt as well as know. (Dante)

Dante - From the Fire category:

Avarice, envy, pride, / Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all / On Fire. (Dante)

Dante - From the Fire category:

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. (Dante)

Dante - From the Freedom category:

For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? (Dante)

Dante - From the Humanity category:

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? (Dante)

Dante - From the Imitation category:

Art imitates nature as well as it can, as a pupil follows his master; thus it is sort of a grandchild of God. (Dante)

Dante - From the Love category:

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment. (Dante)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - From the Opportunity category:

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been. / I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell. (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - From the Thinking category:

Conception, my boy, fundamental brain work, is what makes all the difference in art. (Dante Gabriel Rossetti)