“If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.”

“Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people”

“I am the way into the city of woe,I am the way into eternal pain,I am the way to go among the lost.Justice caused my high architect to move,Divine omnipotence created me,The highest wisdom, and the primal love.Before me there were no created thingsBut those that last forever—as do I.Abandon all hope you who enter here.”

“If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.”

“Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state,perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and herewere every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing.”

“Thus you may understand that love aloneis the true seed of every merit in you,and of all acts for which you must atone.”

“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground”