Top 33 Quotes About Divine Comedy
#1. So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius, your one story-writer: a thief.
John Fante
#2. And in the vine of the divine,
There is a fine line;
Between tragedy and comedy,
That a man cannot define.
Stephan Attia
#3. HELEN HAYES: "Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "The fifth Canto."
HELEN HAYES: "The Hell, huh?"
TIZIANO CONTI: "L'inferno depicts the truth.
Merce Cardus
#4. Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Eugenio Montale
#5. The major challenge for the United States is whether it can become the first outward-looking, continental, nonimperialist power in history.
Lawrence Summers
#6. We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.
Max Hastings
#7. It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.
Jerry Reed
#8. But which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only men of epic stomach can digest these epic tales.
Will Durant
#9. I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.
Ba Jin
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.
Neil Clark Warren
#13. 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
#15. perhaps the greatest poem ever written
Rod Dreher
#16. Be just the balm you need to heal what ails you
Heather Davis
#19. 'The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.
Roberto Benigni
#20. Limbo. It's not Heaven, and it's not Hell. It's the in-between.' (Edward speaking about reading the Divine Comedy.
Luke: 'This was, I realised, my new address.
Jodi Picoult
#22. The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.
Northrop Frye
#23. I read an article about Nirvana on one visit, and it didn't have any references to honey mustard dressing or lettuce. They kept talking about the singer's stomach problems all the time, though. It was weird.
Stephen Chbosky
#24. Everyone loves a comedy, my dear. It is divine.
Rawi Hage
#25. 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
#26. To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.
Ilyas Kassam
#29. My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.
Cesar Pelli
#30. 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
#31. If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.
Joshua Mohr
#32. The Divine Comedy, and indeed our own spiritual life, is not about rejection, or suppression, it is about redemption.
Malcolm Guite
#33. Collective management will build companies - not top-down decision-making.
Peter Diamandis
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