“O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?”

“Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving,Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly,That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me.”

“To course across more kindly waters nowmy talent's little vessel lifts her sails,leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing will be that second kingdom,in which the human soul is cleansed of sin,becoming worthy of ascent to Heaven.”

“And all the while one spirit uttered this,The other one did weep so, that, for pity,I swooned away as if I had been dying,And fell, even as a dead body falls.”

“As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew.”

“Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes”

“Gonindu-ne-o prin cetăți închisedin loc în loc, va-mpinge-o-n Iad de veci,de unde-ntâi invidia ne-o trimise.Spre-a ta scăpare cred și judec decisă-ți fiu conducător, și te voi scoatede-aici, făcând prin loc etern să treci,s-auzi cum urlă desperate gloate,să vezi și-antice duhuri osândite,ce-a doua moarte-a lor și-o strigă toate.”