"Vita Nuova" Quotes
A collection of poems chronicling Dante's love for Beatrice and his exploration of love, grief, and spiritual transformation.
poetry | 128 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
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, ‘Here begins a new life’.
Love, that moves the sun and the other stars.
Love, which absolves no one beloved from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet.
Love is the seed in you of every virtue and of all acts deserving punishment.
The very essence of the flame of love that burns in my heart seems to be derived from a single spark of your fair eyes.
Beatrice has returned to Heaven, the kingdom of the blessed, to that life in which angels live, and I can see her no more.
Joyous was my soul, which, even as it left my body, did not leave her, and remained behind with her, weeping.
My thought, which placed me in the sweet sleep, was so full of the sight of her that it desired nothing else.
Love, that releases no beloved from loving, took me so strongly with his charm that, as you see, it still abandons me not.
The more I consider it, the more my heart is filled with love; so that the thought of it cannot be thought, and cannot be contained in any other thought.
