"Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice."

"Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge."

"And we came forth to contemplate the stars."

"The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream."

"A mighty flame follows a tiny spark."

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy."

"Nature is the art of God."

"Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people"

"The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true."

"Love, that moves the sun and the other stars"

"No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy."

"From there we came outside and saw the stars"

"Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground"

"I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason."

"Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire."

"Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost."

"As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force."

"There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery"

"Nessun maggior dolore che ricordarsi del tempo felice nella miseria..."

"For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble."

"In His will, our peace."

"But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay."

"The Love that moves the sun and the other stars."

"Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone."

"Hope not ever to see Heaven. I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice."

"Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words"

"He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle."

"Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things."

"I wept not, so to stone within I grew."

"It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things"

"One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared."

"But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars"

"There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you."

"Segui il tuo corso et lascia dir les genti (Follow your road and let the people say)"

"Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars."

"I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath"

"At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain."

"As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall."

"I, answering in the end, began: 'Alas, how many yearning thoughts, what great desire, have lead them through such sorrow to their fate?"

"So that the Universe felt love, by which, as somebelieve, the world has many times been turned to chaos. And at that moment this ancient rock, here and elsewhere, fell broken into pieces."

"The experience of this sweet life."

"Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil"

"I found myself within a forest dark,"

"Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it has not left me yet. Love brought us to one death."

"There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair"

"All things created have an order in themselves, and this begets the form that lets the universe resemble God."

"In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him."

"As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight."

"Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing."

"Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom."