33.52 because my sight, becoming pure, was able to penetrate the ray of Light more deeply— that Light, sublime, which in Itself is true..... 33.67 O Highest Light, You, raised so far above the minds of mortals, to my memory give back something of Your epiphany,.......

32.94 And the angelic love who had descended earlier, now spread his wings before her, singing “Ave Maria, gratïa plena.”.... 33.10 you are the noonday torch of charity, and there below, on earth, among the mortals, you are a living spring of hope. Lady, 33.13 you are...

28.16 I saw a point that sent forth so acute a light, that anyone who faced the force with which it blazed would have to shut his eyes,.... 28.22 Around that point a ring of fire wheeled, a ring perhaps as far from that point as a halo from the star that colors it...

8.13 I did not notice my ascent to it, yet I was sure I was in Venus when I saw my lady grow more beautiful. 8.16 And just as, in a flame, a spark is seen, and as, in plainsong, voice in voice is heard— one holds the note, the other comes and goes— 8.19 I...

31 I thought we were enveloped in a cloud, Shining, solid, dense, and highly polished As a diamond struck by the sun would be. 34 The timeless pearl took us inside itself In the same way that water can receive A ray of light while it remains intact. ......

33.142 From the most holy water I returned Regenerate, in the manner of new trees That are renewed with a new foliage, Pure and disposed to mount unto the stars.

124 When underneath us was the stairway all Run o'er, and we were on the highest step, Virgilius fastened upon me his eyes, 127 And said: "The temporal fire and the eternal, Son, thou hast seen, and to a place art come Where of myself no farther I discern....

1 As when he vibrates forth his earliest rays, In regions where his Maker shed his blood, (The Ebro falling under lofty Libra, 4 And waters in the Ganges burnt with noon,) So stood the Sun; hence was the day departing, When the glad Angel of God appeared...

16.1 Darkness of Hell and of a night deprived of every planet, under meager skies, as overcast by clouds as sky can be, 16.4 had never served to veil my eyes so thickly nor covered them with such rough-textured stuff as smoke that wrapped us there in Purgatory; 16.7...

9.73 Now we were drawing closer; we had reached the part from which—where first I’d seen a breach, precisely like a gap that cleaves a wall— 9.76 I now made out a gate and, there below it, three steps—their colors different—leading to it, and a custodian who had not...

2.13 And just as Mars, when it is overcome by the invading mists of dawn, glows red above the waters’ plain, low in the west, 2.16 so there appeared to me—and may I see it again—a light that crossed the sea: so swift, there is no flight of bird to equal it. 2.19 When,...

34.133 My guide and I came on that hidden road to make our way back into the bright world; and with no care for any rest, we climbed 34.136 he first, I following-until I saw, through a round opening, some of those things of beauty Heaven bears. It was from there...

32.22 At this I turned and saw in front of me, beneath my feet, a lake that, frozen fast, had lost the look of water and seemed glass 32.31 And as the croaking frog sits with its muzzle above the water, in the season when the peasant woman often dreams of gleaning,...

14.19 I saw so many flocks of naked souls, all weeping miserably, and it seemed that they were ruled by different decrees. 14.22 Some lay upon the ground, flat on their backs; some huddled in a crouch, and there they sat; and others moved about incessantly. 14.25 The...

9.28 That is the deepest and the darkest place, the farthest from the heaven that girds all: so rest assured, I know the pathway well. 9.31 This swamp that breeds and breathes the giant stench surrounds the city of the sorrowing, which now we cannot enter without...

I found me of the lamentable vale, The dread abyss, that joins a thund'rous sound Of plaints innumerable.  Dark and deep, And thick with clouds o'erspread, mine eye in vain Explor'd its bottom, nor could aught discern. "Now let us to the blind world there beneath...