Bitter Quote by Andre Naffis-Sahely

“Dante is the first Christian poet, the first one whose whole system of thought is colored by a pure Christian theology. But the poem…

— Matthew Pearl

Although I studied Dante's Inferno as a student, it wasn't until recently, while researching in Florence, that I came to appreciate the enduring influence…

— Dan Brown

“A reflection on Robert Lowell Robert Lowell knew I was not one of his devotees. I attended his famous “office hours” salon only a…

— Robert Pinsky

“In his Comedy , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks, makes such…

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“I've read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry-- really necessary novels like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland. Also Emerson's Essays…

— Jean Webster

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history…

— William Winwood Reade

“...[T]he three greatest works are those of Homer , Dante and Shakespeare . These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton .”

— Joseph Devlin

And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the…

— Mark Strand

Of poets I put Virgil first - he was greatest.

— Mary MacLane

“but on Hegel, his "idealist" predecessor who was the first philosopher to answer Kant's challenge of writing a Universal History. For Hegel's understanding of…

— Francis Fukuyama

Another older writer that had a huge influence on me is Chekhov. More contemporarily, it's hard to say.

— Chad Harbach

“History is like a story with great characters, fantastic storylines, and wonderful settings. ~ Chip Lagerbom, 2011”

— Dave Webb