# Quote — Dante Alighieri, La Vita Nuova

> Love hath so long possessed me for his own
>
> And made his lordship so familiar.

- Author: [Dante Alighieri](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri.md)
- Book: [La Vita Nuova](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova.md)
- Original (it): Sì lungiamente m'ha tenuto Amore / e costumato a la sua segnoria
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri#La_Vita_Nuova_(1293)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/love-hath-so-long

## More from this book

> In that book which is
>
> My memory...
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> On the first page
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> That is the chapter when
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> I first met you
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> Appear the words...
>
> Here begins a new life.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/in-that-book.md)

> She is the sum of nature's universe.
>
> To her perfection all of beauty tends.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/she-is-the.md)

> In his arms, my lady lay asleep, wrapped in a veil.
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> He woke her then and trembling and obedient
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> She ate that burning heart out of his hand;
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> Weeping I saw him then depart from me.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/dante-alighieri/la-vita-nuova/in-his-arms.md)