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There is a gentle thought that often springs
to life in me, because it speaks of you.
Its reasonin...
poem by Dante Alighieri
I'll never step ashore and feel your beach
the way I felt it as a barefoot child,
or see you waver...
poem by Ugo Fuscolo
Where its shade was, the oak itself now sprawls,
lifeless, no longer vying with the wind.
The peop...
poem by Giovanni Pascoli
I live on this depraved and lonely cliff
like a sad bird abhorring a green tree
or splashing water...
poem by Vittoria Colonna
The hill is like night against the clear sky.
Your head framed against it, barely moving,
and movi...
poem by Cesare Pavese
Gemlike the air, the sun so bright above
you look for blossoms on the apricot trees,
recall the bi...
poem by Giovanni Pascoli
Love and the gentle heart are one thing,
just as the poet says in his verse,
each from the other o...
poem by Dante Alighieri
From the door of his house in the gentle sunshine
the old man, disillusioned with everything,
watc...
poem by Cesare Pavese
Maybe because you always have appeared
The image of that fatal rest to me,
O night! You come tow...
poem by Ugo Fuscolo
Now will you rest forever,
My tired heart. Dead is the last
deception,
That I thought eternal. De...
poem by Giacomo Leopardi
I stared into the valley: it was gone—
wholly submerged! A vast flat sea remained,
gray, w...
poem by Giovanni Pascoli
Father of heaven! if by thy mercy's grace
A living branch I am of that true vine
Which spreads o'e...
poem by Vittoria Colonna
Silvia, do you remember
the moments, in your mortal life,
when beauty still shone
in your sidelon...
poem by Giacomo Leopardi
Blest union, that in heaven was ordained
In wondrous manner, to yield peace to man,
Which by the s...
poem by Vittoria Colonna
From morning till evening he saw the tattoo
on his silky chest: a russet woman,
lying concealed in...
poem by Cesare Pavese
I'll turn round in the street and look at the passers-by,
I'll be a passer-by myself. I'll learn
h...
poem by Cesare Pavese
Oh gracious moon, now as the year turns,
I remember how, heavy with sorrow,
I climbed this hill to...
poem by Giacomo Leopardi
These solitary hills have always been dear to me.
Seated here, this sweet hedge, which blocks the d...
poem by Giacomo Leopardi
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die....
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
CANTO I


ONE night, when half my life behind me lay,
I wandered from the straight lost path af...
poem by Dante Alighieri
Learning never exhausts the mind....
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding....
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge....
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do no...
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication....
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rew...
quote by Giacomo Leopardi
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge....
quote by Dante Alighieri
You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself....
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
A well-spent day brings happy sleep....
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing...
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in set...
quote by Michelangelo
Small projects need much more help than great....
quote by Dante Alighieri
Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows....
quote by Dante Alighieri
No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance....
quote by Giacomo Leopardi
Art is never finished, only abandoned....
quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

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