Search results for Late Antiquity (4th-5th centuries AD)

"Through me the way is to the city of woe, through me the way is to eternal pain, through me the way among the lost people."

Dante Alighieri

And then we emerged to see the stars again.

Dante Alighieri

You were not made to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

To run upon better waters now hoists sail the little vessel of my genius, leaving behind itself a sea so cruel.

Dante Alighieri

Your will is free, upright, and whole; henceforth, you act according to its discretion. Therefore, I crown and mitre you over yourself.

Dante Alighieri

Love, which absolves no loved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it does not leave me even now.

Dante Alighieri

And just as someone who, with laboring breath, has escaped the sea to reach the shore, turns back to gaze at the perilous waters.

Dante Alighieri

O imagination, that sometimes steals us so, from outside things, that we pay no attention, though someone might be present who hears a bell or a horn, within you!

Dante Alighieri

And as the starlings are borne on their wings, in the cold season, in a broad and full troop, so does that blast bear the evil spirits along.

Dante Alighieri

There the dreadful Erichtho writhed, who summoned back the shadows to their bodies.

Dante Alighieri