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Quotation from The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost”
The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto I, trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
Dante begins the pilgrimage in moral confusion and fear.
Citation: "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost" — Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto I, trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). (id the-divine-comedy-q1)
Portrait: La Divina Commedia di Dante Dante Alighieri with Florence and the Realms of the Divine Comedy (Hell, Purgatory, Paradise), Domenico di Michelino / After Alesso Baldovinetti, Public domain.
