Analytics Quote by George Steiner

So, then, the best of the historian is subject to the poet; for whatsoever action or faction, whatsoever counsel, policy, or war-stratagem the historian…

— Philip Sidney

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

“The poet's function is to describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen, i.e., what is possible…

— Aristotle

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

“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

“In our society of fixed texts and printed words, it is the function of the poet to see the life value of the facts…

— Joseph Campbell

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

“A sixteenth-century poet, especially one who knew that he ought to be a curious and universal scholar, would possess some notions, perhaps not strictly…

— Frank Kermode

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

— Eugenio Montale

“History describes what has happened, poetry what might. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and serious than history; for poetry speaks of what is…

— Aristotle

“...[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

“To want to give to prose the rhythm of verse (but keeping it very much prose), and to want to write about ordinary life…

— Gustav Flaubert