Deeper Quote by T. S. Eliot

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

— Matthew Pearl

“For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known…

— Damon Suede

“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

“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

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.

— Martin Freeman

Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Dejan Stojanovic

“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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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