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I don't have a particular favourite from the Inferno, but I like this one from Paradise (this translation by Mark Musa): And I was in the sun, no more aware of my ascent than one can be aware of how a thought will come before it comes. She it is, Beatrice, guides our climb from good to better instantaneously - her action has no measurement in time. How brilliant in its essence must have been what shone within the sun, where I had come, not with its colour but light on light! Even if I called on genius, art, and skill I could not make this live before your eyes - a man must trust and long to see it there. If our imagination cannot rise to such a height, no need to be surprised. No eye has known light brighter than the sun's...
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