Abandon hope all ye who enter here.

— Dante Alighieri

Ail hope abandon ye who enter here.

— Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

— Dante Alighieri

All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

— Dante Alighieri

A mighty flame follows a tiny spark.

— Dante Alighieri

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.

— Dante Alighieri

And he began, "What chance or destiny has brought you here before your final day? And who is he who leads your pilgrimage?"" Up there in life beneath the quiet stars lost my way," I answered, "in a valley, before I'd reached the fullness of my age. I turned my shoulders on it yesterday:this soul appeared as I was falling back, and by the road through Hell he leads me home."" Follow your star, and you will never fail to find your glorious port," he said to me

— Dante Alighieri

And what will bow your shoulders downhill be the vicious and worthless company with whom you will fall into this abyss.

— Dante Alighieri

Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.

— Dante Alighieri

As once, I loved you in my mortal flesh, without it now I love you still.

— Dante Alighieri