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{Allegory: And just as someone who, with laboring breath, has escaped the sea to reach the shore, turns back to gaze at...}

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

Ah, how hard it is to describe this rough and harsh and dense forest, which renews fear in my thoughts!

Dante Alighieri

{Allegory: O imagination, that sometimes steals us so,
from outside things, that we pay no attention,
though someone...}

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

{Allegory: And as the starlings are borne on their wings, in the cold season, in a broad and full troop, so does that...}

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

And I: 'Master, what is so heavy that it makes them lament so strongly?'.

Dante Alighieri

{Allegory: He had already reached the place where the roar of water falling into the next circle could be heard, similar...}

He had already reached the place where the roar of water falling into the next circle could be heard, similar to the buzzing of beehives.

Dante Alighieri

I saw such a long throng of people, I would not have believed death had undone so many.

Dante Alighieri

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

Dante Alighieri

You will taste how salty another's bread is, and how hard it is to tread another's stairs up and down.

Dante Alighieri

Beyond the sphere that widest orbit swings, passes the sigh that leaves my heart below.

Francesco Petrarca

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