Dante Alighieri
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.
art
Dante Alighieri
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
beauty
Dante Alighieri
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
beauty
Dante Alighieri
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
change
Dante Alighieri
There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
happiness
Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.
history
Dante Alighieri
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
hope
Dante Alighieri
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
knowledge