Art Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

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

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we…

— Rebecca West

“In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most…

— John Steinbeck

“...[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

“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

“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen it long…

— C.S. Lewis

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need…

— Bart D. Ehrman

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to…

— Harold Bloom

“Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below,…

— Matthew Pearl

“A wonderful point in favor of some kind of hereafter is this: When the mind rejects as childishly absurd a paradise with musical angels…

— Vladimir Nabokov

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

— Elias Canetti

Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the futility of…

— Vincent Van Gogh