“Already desiring to explore inside and out
the divine forest, so dense and alive,
which tempered the new day before my eyes,
without delay I left the bank, proceeding slowly through the country
whose ground exuded fragrance everywhere.”
More from Dante Alighieri
“The path to paradise begins in hell.”
“I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath.”
“The devil is not as black as he is painted.”
“To me, the whole world is a homeland, like the sea to fish.”