Small projects need much more help than great.
Like the lark that soars in the air, first singing, then silent, content with the last sweetness that satiates it, such seemed to me that image, the imprint of the Eternal Pleasure.
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
I presumed to fix my look on the eternal light so long that I consumed my sight thereon.
How come I never meet any nice girls?
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Astrology, the noblest of sciences.
If your world isn’t right, the cause is in you.
Love can move the Sun and the stars.
You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man’s bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man’s stairs.
The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain.
All of nature is God’s art.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
What shall one do with the verse, if he knows not That?
A backward glance can often lift the heart.
Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people.
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.