Italian Poetry Quotes

#1. The English were fascinated with the Italian people and their amazing Epicurean culture. Italian poetry, painting, pornography, music, drama, fashion, wine, women, cheese, anything Italiano was a premium commodity in London during Shakespeare's day.

Mark Lamonica

#2. But how can you live in the moment when all you want is for the moment to end?

Neal Shusterman

#3. My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most ... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

Garth Brooks

#4. Since it's fiction, the book resonates, at least for me, on various levels, some of which intimate ideas about history but none of which have the kind of directly causal reasoning you cite.

Rachel Kushner

#5. For that you should read the original. In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian.

Donna Tartt

#6. I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

Dante Alighieri

#7. It came to be the natural rule of life with him, that no one should add to the burden of the world, but that each should try to lighten it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#8. One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

Patricia Schroeder

#9. Remember, these characters hold a special place in the hearts of children and we need to show them a little respect, right?

Scott Cawthon

#10. You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it.

Bob Dylan

#11. There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.

Dante Alighieri

#12. The main international problem facing America is our lack of - our loss of influence in the world and our lack of an ability to define what U.S. interests really are.

Bob Barr

#13. Italian is the language of song. German is good for philosophy and English for poetry. French is best at precision; it has a rigour to it.

Maurice Druon

#14. Maybe I should try singing like a man.

James Blunt

#15. I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

Jesse L. Martin

#16. You are the best part of my day, Tink. You make me feel whole and happy and when I'm not with you, I'm thinking about you. I'm not in love with you, but I know that I can't live without you.

R.L. Mathewson

#17. I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees.

Ryan Lilly

#18. Let your actions be the answer to criticism.

Debasish Mridha