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Dante Alighieri — Portrait after a picture by Sandro Botticelli (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Dante Alighieri

Florentine poet, writer, and philosopher

1265–1321

14 quotes, most often on Love, Life & Death and God. Part of the Writers collection.

There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.
The Divine Comedy (1320), Inferno, Canto V, lines 121-123, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation (1867)In context
- Life & Death
And after it there came so long a train
Of people, that I ne’er would have believed
That ever Death so many had undone.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Inferno, Canto IIIIn context
- Life & Death
Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Inferno, Canto IIn context
- Life & Death

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