Quotation Listing
Dante Alighieri
- Call to mind from whence ye sprang: / Ye were not form'd to live the life of brutes, / But virtue to pursue and knowledge high.
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, (Inferno, Canto xxvi, Lines 118-120)
Source: Alighieri, Dante. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. trans. Henry F. Cary. ed. Charles W. Eliot. Danbury, CT: Grolier Enterprises Corp., 1980. 109.
- There is no greater sorrow / Than to be mindful of the happy time / In misery
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, (Inferno, Canto V, Lines 121-3)
Source: Alighieri, Dante. "Poetry of Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy - Inferno: Canto V." trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. everypoet.com. 2004. 7 Nov 2004. <http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/dante/dante_i_05.htm>