Artist Quote by Osip Mandelstam

“No, never mind, I didn't think so. Mead, Dante's theme is man-not a man.' Lowell said finally with a mild patience that he reserved…

— Matthew Pearl

“Take from my palms, to soothe your heart, a little honey, a little sun, in obedience to Persephone's bees. You can't untie a boat…

— Osip Mandelstam

Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest,…

— William Allingham

“It is not difficult to imagine that music, like Dante’s Beatrice, is one of the ways in which grace operates through beauty—that music, like…

— Peter Kalkavage

“Bourbon, Kentucky bourbon especially, is like Dante’s Inferno in a glass, fire walks down your throat, lungs, and heart and everything in between with…

— Bruce Crown

“I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted to tell them…

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz

“I thought: Now I am like Dante. I walk through hell, but I am not burning.”

— Edith Hahn Beer a

I am like Dante, I walk through hell, but I am not burning.

— Anonymous

“Medusa's lips split with that challenging smile, and for a second he recognized her somehow, he knew her on some primal level, the same…

— S.J. Kincaid

“It's an abominable fallacy that suffering makes for greater art. Suffering blinds, deafens, ruins, and often kills. Osip Mandelstam was a great poet before…

— Joseph Brodsky

Ip Man was an extraordinary man who lived during extraordinary times. He was born to a rich family when the country was still a…

— Wong Kar-wai

“all rightly guided religion that submitted wholly to God, refused to worship man-made deities and preached that justice and equality came from the same…

— Karen Armstrong