Dante Love Quotes

Love: An Emotion That Bears No Age Limit Love is defined as an intense feeling of strong affection, and for Dante in La Vita Nuova it was nothing but the emotion that changed his world. Love is scribed as something that’ll make people go to extreme lengths in order to fulfill their desires. However, Dante fell in love when he was merely a child at nine years old, and spent the rest of his adult life in self-reflection sobbing in his own heartache. The innocence of a child’s crush versus a gentleman’s love sickness is vast however, for Dante love left him in the lowest adolescent form. Nonetheless, love at certain stages of life displays very different characteristics based on the maturity of the person when looking at Dante at this point
However, for his age love is based on strictly outer beauty, and trembles with the sophistication on the outer appearance of not only clothing, but overall perception as well. When he first laid eyes on his beloved crush he stated “speaking especially to the spirit of sight, spoke these words: ‘Apparuit iam beatitudo vestra: Now your blessedness appears.’ At that moment the natural spirit, that which lives in the part where our food is delivered, began to weep, and weeping said these words: ‘Heu miser, quia frequenter impeditus ero deinceps!:Oh misery, since I will often be troubled from now on!’” (II). Dante with his sight on his beloved Beatrice trembles based on her stunning beauty. As a child he knows that this girl is going to make him quiver every time he sets his eyes on her. However, Dante as a child never acts on his love, but instead lets the burning passion govern his mood to its fullest extent. Dante is just a child and to fall in love means that their imagination is going to run wild in order to make up for the loss in reciprocated
Dante fell “head over heels” in love when he was merely a child only to spend the rest of his adult life in self-reflection sobbing in his own heartache. The innocence of a child’s crush versus a gentleman’s love sickness is extensive, however for most people love at certain stages of life displays very different characteristics based on the maturity of the person itself. Dante being the only exception never escaped his pubescent attitude of love. Love for Dante became overwhelming, and even with the most sophisticated tongue and intellectual capacity Dante could not construct the ability to make his love known. The days still passing right before his eyes the gracious one fell in love herself with a different suitor to only depart years later leaving Dante unaccomplished in his love conquest. Therefore, love can make people go to extreme lengths, but no matter what age someone resides in love has the power to alter the most confident of people. However, love as a child and as a gentleman have no immense difference which in this case makes love timeless, and the faster someone decides to act on emotion the less time will be spent trying to cope with