Dante Alighieri, canto 1, The Divine Comedy

“Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

mi ritrovai per una selva oscura

ché la diritta via era smarrita.”

“When I had journeyed half of our life’s way,

I found myself within a shadowed forest,

for I had lost the path that does not stray.”

~ Dante Alighieri, canto 1, The Divine Comedy

Image: Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré from “The Vision of Hell.”