Ciardi Dante Quotes

#1. Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

Holly Near

#2. Life is a " vale of tears" a period of trial and suffering, an unpleasant but necessary preparation for the afterlife where alone man could expect to enjoy happiness - Archibald T. MacAllister (The Inferno; Dante Alighieri translated by John Ciardi)

Dante Alighieri

#3. The artist secretes nostalgia around life.

Cyril Connolly

#4. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#5. I think the problems with being older come when your body cannot do what your mind wants. Then, Houston, we have a problem.

Antonio Banderas

#6. It's [her new house] kind of like my relationship. I'm like nurturing it and like spending a lot of time there and making sure that everything is perfect. It's like my new boyfriend.

Kim Kardashian

#7. I guess that's just the life of an inventor: what people do with your ideas takes you totally by surprise.

Stephanie Kwolek

#8. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other.

Annette Curtis Klause

#9. The religious belief varies from village to village. Nearly all worship the cholera and smallpox deities, and there are traces of serpent worship.

Paul Theroux

#10. I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!

J.K. Rowling