Home / Quotes / Quote by Dante Alighieri

Quote by Dante Alighieri

“In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.”

Quote by Dante Alighieri

Author

Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet and a pioneer of the Renaissance, is hailed as the father of Italian literature. Born in 1265 and died on September 14, 1321, Dante is best known for his epic poem, 'The Divine Comedy,' which is not only a great literary work but also a profound religious and philosophical treatise. more

You May Also Like

“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

Feels Feelings Pain Hurt Very Good Flesh Tiny Dirty Sand It Hurts Toes Live In The Moment Delicious Chips Silicon Friction

Book:Children of the Mind

Source: Children of the Mind

“Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.”

Author:William Faulkner

“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.”

People Kind Earth Mouths Green Stores Tolerate Librarian Politeness Eccentric Crank Green Earth

Author:Garrison Keillor

“Of course it's all right for librarians to smell of drink.”

Courses Drink Smell Librarian Alright

Author:Barbara Pym

“What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.”

Should Persons Doe Conscience

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.”

Needs Truth Wish Teach History Senses Abstract Seducing

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”

People Turns Seeing Objects Gun Murder Cameras Photograph Appropriate Frightened Possessed Subliminal

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“We're living in momentous times, Garion. The events of a thousand years and more have all focused on these very days. The world, I'm told, is like that. Centuries pass when nothing happens, and then in a few short years events of such tremendous importance take place that the world is never the same again." I think that if I had my choice, I'd prefer one of those quiet centuries," Garion said glumly. Oh, no," Silk said, his lips drawing back in a ferretlike grin. "Now's the time to be alive - to see it all happen, to be a part of it. That makes the blood race, and each breath is an adventure.”

Ifs Thinking World Years Said Happens Choices Race Alive Blood Century Events Adventure Thousand Quiet Importance Breaths Lips Focused Drawing Thousand Years Silk

Author:David Eddings

“To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.”

Men Writing Interest Vanity Pens Preoccupation

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“One's own free and unfettered volition, one's own caprice, however wild, one's own fancy, inflamed sometimes to the point of madness - that is the one best and greatest good, which is never taken into consideration because it cannot fit into any classification and the omission of which sends all systems and theories to the devil.”

Sometimes Taken Theory Fit Devil Madness Fancy Consideration Classification Omission Caprice Volition Wild One

Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky