Poetry Quote by Peter S. Hawkins

“Dante is the first Christian poet, the first one whose whole system of thought is colored by a pure Christian theology. But the poem…

— Matthew Pearl

“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

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

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

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

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

“Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early paths of…

— Alexandre Dumas

“ 'Do not ask what brings Dante to man but what brings man to Dante-to personally enter his sphere, though it is forever severe…

— Matthew Pearl

“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

Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies…

— Goldwin Smith

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

“For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours?”

— Arthur Schopenhauer