Dante Alighieri Stars Quotations

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.

e quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle" ("and thence we came forth to see again the stars")

It was the hour of morning, when the sun mounts with those stars that shone with it when God's own love first set in motion those fair things

But already my desire and my will were being turned like a wheel, all at one speed, by the Love which moves the sun and the other stars

If thou follow thy star, thou canst not fail of glorious heaven.

Love can move the Sun and the stars.

From there we came outside and saw the stars

Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel whose motion nothing jars- by the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.

To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars.

But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.

And we came forth to contemplate the stars.

...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

Follow your own star!

And here Dante describes an evidently spherical world... "The lamp of the world [the sun] rises to mortals through different passages; but through that which joins four circles with three crosses [the position of the rising sun at the vernal equinox] it issues with a better course and conjoined with better stars, and tempers and stamps the wax of the world more after its own fashion. Although such an outlet had made morning there and evening here, and all the hemisphere there was bright, and the other dark..."

Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.

L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)