After Quote by Dejan Stojanovic Download Open image “After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?” — Dejan Stojanovic ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare After Books Century Creating Dante Dejan stojanovic Homer Literature Literature-quotes Philosophy Poetry Poetry quotes Poets Quotes Shakespeare The-sun-watches-the-sun Value Wisdom
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 Copy Share Image
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
By recycling pre-existing material, Shakespeare seemed to endorse a view common in his time, which has become even more entrenched in the 400 years… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare. — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
If Shakespeare thought comedy worthwhile, that means the rest of us can take a break from tragedy now and then without betraying our calling,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
With Shakespeare, because you invest so much time in working on material, it always sort of stays with you to some degree. — Christian Cooke Copy Share Image
It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you. — Jack L. Chalker Copy Share Image
“A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The name does not deserve the poem, but the poem deserves the name.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The necessity of nothingness does not create anything. The real value and meaning of the Being are not in its necessity but in its… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Energy is the world-born phenomenon, the world that puts itself in motion and flies into space by receiving space into itself. From this point… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“As we see it, space is possible only when the primordial Being swallows emptiness. Space is born when the Being accepts emptiness, the Nonbeing,… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“The Creation of the World or Omniverse is the Creation or Recreation of the Absolute itself through the two poles, two “sides” of its… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with. — Deke Richards Copy Share Image
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that… — Moses Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?' — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
