Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars Quotes

“All who, in wanting grace, do not seek help from you, might wish to soar yet lack the wings. Nor in your kindness do you give your aid to those alone who ask, but often run, before they ask, to them in generous freedom. In you is pity, in you compassion, in you all-giving power. All good in you is gathered up that creature form can bear.”
― Dante Alighieri, Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

“In us, imagination is too mean for such great heights. And that’s no miracle. For no eye ever went beyond the sun.”
― Dante Alighieri, Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

“Like those who see so clearly while they dream that marks of feeling, when their dreaming ends, remain, though nothing more returns to mind, so I am now. For nearly all I saw has gone, even if, still, within my heart, there drops the sweetness that was born from that.”
― Dante Alighieri, Love that Moves the Sun and Other Stars

“And you will taste the saltiness of bread when offered by another’s hand – as, too, how hard it is to climb a stranger’s stair.”
― Dante Alighieri, Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

“You’ll leave behind you all you hold most dear. And this will be the grievous arrow barb that exile, first of all, will shoot your way.”
― Dante Alighieri, Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars