#the divine comedy

ovid:

so shameful that no medieval poet wanted ME to guide them through their sexual awakening journey through the underworld or whatever idk i didn’t read the whole book

The Empyrean

19/27

Words by Feargha DeCléir NíChiannaigh

        BOOK STARTERS VOL.53    THE DIVINE COMEDY    DANTE ALIGHIERI

1. ❛ All hope abandon, ye who enter here. ❜
   
2. ❛ The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain. ❜
   
3. ❛ The love that moves the sun and the other stars. ❜
   
4. ❛ The devil is not as black as he is painted. ❜
   
5. ❛ Through me you pass into the city of woe. Through me you pass into eternal pain. ❜
   
6. ❛ Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.  ❜
   
7. ❛ There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. ❜
   
8. ❛ Midway upon the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. ❜
   
9. ❛ Without hope we live on in desire. ❜
   
10. ❛ Make my veins and pulses tremble. ❜
    
11. ❛ I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath. ❜
    
12. ❛ I found myself within a forest dark. ❜
    
13. ❛ If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. ❜
    
14. ❛ Here were every fruit and never-ending spring. ❜
    
15. ❛ The well heeded well heard. ❜
    
16. ❛ Through me the way that runs among the lost. ❜
    
17. ❛ A longer ladder still is to be climbed. ❜
    
18. ❛ Why should you care about what’s whispered here? ❜
    
19. ❛ Why have you let your mind get so entwined? ❜
    
20. ❛ I was told about this torture, that it was the hell of carnal sins when reasons give way to desire. ❜
    
21. ❛ What is it then? Why do you hesitate? ❜
    
22. ❛ Why do you relish living like a coward? ❜
    
23. ❛ A just request is to be met in silence, by the act. ❜
    
24. ❛ There was not, nor will be, from the first day to the last night, an act so glorious and so magnificent. ❜
    
25. ❛ Your name is widely known in hell! ❜
    
26. ❛ Oh human creatures, born to soar aloft, why fall ye thus before a little wind? ❜
    
27. ❛ That brute which knows no peace came ever nearer me and, step by step, drove me back down to where the sun is mute. ❜
    
28. ❛ The shining strengthened me against the fright whose agony had wracked the lake of my heart through all the terrors of that piteous night. ❜
    
29. ❛ It was so dark, and deep, and clouded, that I could see nothing by staring into its depths. ❜
    
30. ❛ Love rules me. It determines what I ask. ❜

temporarily back from hiatus to show off my copy of tdc

currentlycryingaboutlancelot:

today I learned that in 2008, the city council of florence overturned dante’s sentence of execution if he returned from exile. yes, dante’s inferno dante, who died in 1321.

but the funniest part of this is not that they were debating the exile of a man who has been dead for over 500 years.

the funniest part is that the vote was 19-5. five people voted to uphold dante’s exile.

“…leave behind all hesitation.” 02.08.2020 I bought The Divine Comedy and Inferno for a dollar at my local library