Appreciate Quote by Dan Brown

Have you ever read Dante's Inferno? It's a very nice book. You would like it; it involves people like you.

— Tahj Wilson

I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really,…

— Dan Brown

“over the centuries Dante has been variously "constructed" - as lover, statesman, neo-Platonist, proto-Protestant, Romantic visionary, Byronic hero, Pre-Raphaelite, father of his country, theologian…

— Peter S. Hawkins

“The force of Dante's poetry resonated most in those who did not confess the Catholic faith, for believers would inevitably have quibbles with Dante's…

— Matthew Pearl

For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Eugenio Montale

Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that…

— Roberto Benigni

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies…

— Goldwin Smith

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

— Ba Jin

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?”

— Arthur Schopenhauer