Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter in. . .

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

Necessity brings him here, not pleasure. 

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Follow your own star!

From a little spark may burst a flame.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.

Love hath so long possessed me for his own
And made his lordship so familiar.

Love, which absolves no beloved one from loving,
seized me so strongly with his charm
that, as thou seest, it does not leave me yet.