Century Quote by Eugenio Montale

The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry…

— W. S. Merwin

If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

— Joshua Mohr

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

— Ba Jin

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

“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

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

— Dejan Stojanovic

In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty to ideas, such sublime…

— James Russell Lowell

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

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

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

“And in the vine of the divine, There is a fine line; Between tragedy and comedy, That a man cannot define.”

— Stephan Attia

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