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To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

Dante Alighieri
Running, Sea, Water
Dante Alighieri (1902). “The Divine Comedy”

To course across more kindly waters now my 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.

Dante Alighieri
Sea, Water, Heaven
Dante Alighieri (1982). “Purgatorio: Introduction, Italian test & translation, and thirty-four drawings”, p.2, Univ of California Press

And as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.

Dante Alighieri
Water, Turns, Shore
Dante Alighieri, John D Sinclair (1961). “The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Inferno”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water.

Dante Alighieri
Men, Air, Water

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