Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path. How hard it is to tell what it was like, this wood of wilderness, savage and stubborn (the thought of it brings back all my old fears), a bitter place! Death could scarce be bitterer. But if I would show the good that came of it I must talk about things other than the good. β¨ Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa (1995). Dante's Inferno: The Indiana Critical Edition, p.19, Indiana University Press
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- Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. β¨ Divine Comedy. Poem by Dante Alighieri. Inferno, Song XI, 103, 1321.
- Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. β¨ Dante Alighieri (2014). Dante's Inferno [translated]: Modern English Translation, p.21, BookBaby
- That which had pleased me once, troubled by spirit. β¨ Dante Alighieri (2001). The Inferno, p.245, Penguin
- Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice. β¨ The Divine Comedy.
- In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, βHere begins a new lifeβ.
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