Dante's Divine Comedy Quotes

#1. Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Eugenio Montale

#2. perhaps the greatest poem ever written

Rod Dreher

#3. I lead horses to water and if they don't drink, then I drown them.

Mike Brown

#4. We have untold stacks of recorded music from every age and culture, and the most superb means of playing it. But who actually listens? Maybe a few pot-smokers.

Alan W. Watts

#5. One day you will realize the worth of what you're losing today.

Sara Naveed

#6. If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

Joshua Mohr

#7. A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of The Inferno, The Divine Comedy, to help guide him through the underworld.

Edward Hirsch

#8. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

#9. compunction, and her cigarette dangles from her scarlet-tipped hand. She hasn't

Beatriz Williams

#10. Thy soul is by vile fear assailed

Dante Alighieri

#11. Inferno is the underworld as described in Dante Alighieri's epic poem The Divine Comedy, which portrays hell as an elaborately structured realm populated by entities known as "shades" - bodiless souls trapped between life and death.

Dan Brown

#12. Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine.

Rawi Hage

#13. It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

Myrtle Reed

#14. Very much as men project weird fantasies on women, the people in New York project weird fantasies on California.

Carolyn See

#15. I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.

Samantha Stosur

#16. In his will is our peace.

Dante The Divine Comedy

#17. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right - as right as you can, anyway - it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it. If you're very lucky ... more will want to do the former than the latter.

Stephen King

#18. I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it by doing things that make you happy.

J.A. Redmerski

#19. Midway upon the journey of our life

Dante Alighieri

#20. Originality is going back to origins.

Antonio Gaudi

#21. I know her by heart, and that doesn't make me love her any less. Like a Dante scholar who learns the entire Divine Comedy and then just appreciates the poem even more profoundly.

Fausto Brizzi

#22. Come on, shake off the covers of this sloth, for sitting softly cushioned, or tucked in bed, is no way to win fame.

Dante Alighieri

#23. His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included in his DIVINE COMEDY from the writings of al-Farghani (whom he referred to by his Latin name, Alfraganus).

Jim Al-Khalili

#24. Tomorrow never comes but let us always hope that tomorrow comes tomorrow.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

Ba Jin

#26. How I long for more time ... but time is a commodity even my vast fortune cannot afford.

Dan Brown

#27. Learn the duty as well as taste the pleasure of original work.

Robert James Graves

#28. Sadie, I'm not fragile," he complained. " I don't need a protector."
"Rubinho," I said. " That's macho bluster, and all boys like to be mothered.

Rick Riordan

#29. If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

C.J. Sansom