Still desiring, we live without hope.
That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit.
Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.
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. Beatrice – Canto V 40-42.
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.
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point.
He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
Infinite goodness has such wide arms.
Where the way is hardest, there go thou; Follow your own path and let people talk.
Follow your path, and let the people talk.
The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.
From there we came outside and saw the stars.
Here let dead poetry rise once more to life.
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
A man’s renown is like the hue of grass, Which comes and goes.
If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.
Mankind, why do ye set your hearts on things That, of necessity, may not be shared?
Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.
One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.