#robin kirkpatrick

[lumi1055]

I, in my time, have seen brave knights strike camp,

parade their power, launch an attack, and then,

at times, to save their skins, desert the field.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno (Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick)

[lumi1055]

So, on we went, five friends on either side,

What a fearsome company! We'll, that's the way it is:

hobnob in church with saints, in pubs with sots.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno (Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick)

[lumi1055]

Always, to every truth that looks, in face,

like lies, one ought (quite firmly) bar the lip

lest, guiltless, what one says should still bring shame.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno (Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick)

[lumi1055]

They weep. Yet weeping does not let them weep.

Their anguish meets a blockage at the eye.

Turned in, this only makes their heartache more.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno (Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick)

[lumi1055]

There's one I've seen before. Once was enough.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno (Translated by Robin Kirkpatrick)

[journalofingeniousness]

At one point midway on our path in life,I came around and found myself now searchingthrough a dark wood, the right way blurred and lost.

Dante Alighieri, Inferno

[bookaboutyou]

oh, hello there, terrifying new design for the new robin kirkpatrick translation of dante's inferno, courtesy penguin books.