All 11 Uses of
cleave
in
Dante's Purgatory -- translated by Norton
- Without your asking, I confess to you that this is a human body which you see, whereby the light of the sun on the ground is cleft.†
Canto 1-11
- Never did I see enkindled vapors at early night so swiftly cleave the clear sky, nor at set of sun the clouds of August, that these did not return up in less time; and, arrived there, they, with the others, gave a turn toward us, like a troop that runs without curb.†
Canto 1-11
- Hearing the air cleft by their green wings the serpent fled, and the angels wheeled about, up to their stations flying back alike.†
Canto 1-11 *
- We drew near to it, and reached such place that there, where at first there seemed to me a rift, like a cleft which divides a wall, I saw a gate, and three steps beneath for going to it of divers colors, and a gatekeeper who as yet said not a word.†
Canto 1-11
- We were ascending through a cloven rock, which moved on one side and on the other, even as the wave retreats and approaches.†
Canto 1-11
- After we had become alone by going on, a voice that seemed like lightning when it cleaves the air, came counter to us, saying, "Everyone that findeth me shall slay me," [1] and fled like thunder which rolls away, if suddenly the cloud is rent.†
Canto 12-22
- Now who art thou that cleavest our smoke, and yet dost speak of us even as if thou didst still divide the time by calends?†
Canto 12-22
- St. Augustine expounds the cloven hoof as symbolic of right conduct, because it does not easily slip, and the chewing of the cud as signifying the meditation of wisdom.†
Canto 12-22
- Like the falcon that first looks down, then turns at the cry, and stretches forward, through desire of the food that draws him thither; such I became, and such, so far as the rock is cleft to afford a way to him who goeth up, did I go on as far as where the circling[1] is begun.†
Canto 12-22
- [2] "My soul cleaveth to the dust.†
Canto 12-22
- And he stretched up one and the other of his wings between the midmost stripe, and the three and three, so that he did harm to no one of them by cleaving it.†
Canto 23-33