Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. — Eugenio Montale Copy Share Image
We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs. — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.” DANTE… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“HELEN HAYES: “Which part of The Divine Comedy do you like the most, Tiziano?” TIZIANO CONTI: “The fifth Canto.” HELEN HAYES: “The… — Merce Cardus Copy Share Image
“His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“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… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“...but which of us has read every line of the Iliad, or the Aeneid, or The Divine Comedy, or Paradise Lost? Only… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,'… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
“The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There are souls beneath that water. Fixed in slime they speak their piece, end it, and start again: 'Sullen were we in… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can… — Roberto Benigni Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“This was part of the divine comedy-God's sense of humor undergirding the inner workings of the universe. Sinners participated in the redemption… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“The last line of the Divine Comedy, in which Dante is faced with the vision of God Himself, is a sentiment that… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“...It is the one time Dante calls such explicit attention to the idea of contrapasso-a word for which we have no exact… — Matthew Pearl Copy Share Image
“ Speaking Italian Italian is a Romance language, meaning that it is based on Latin, the language of ancient Rome. Spanish, French,… — Jean F. Blashfield Copy Share Image
“In the mid–path of my life, I woke to find myself in a dark wood,' writes Dante, in The Divine Comedy, beginning… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Dante was standing near the Ponte Vecchio, a bridge that crosses the Arno River in Florence. It was just before 1300… Dante… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Though I have always made it my practice to be pleasant to everybody, I have not once actually experienced friendship. I have… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“When the Italian poet Dante described the center of hell in his poem The Divine Comedy, he got it wrong. The epicenter… — Steve Dublanica Copy Share Image
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
“Non isperate mai veder lo cielo: i’ vegno per menarvi a l’altra riva ne le tenebre etterne, in caldo e ’n gelo.” — Dante Copy Share Image
“To neglect ones own ability to laugh is the greatest form of Blasphemy, for to laugh is to pray.” — Ilyas Kassam Copy Share Image
“There is no end for a spirit. The soul is in a state of becoming; a continuous state of learning and development.… — Unathi Magubeni Copy Share Image
This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
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