"Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them.……" — Thomas Stearns Eliot

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• Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An… — Victor Hugo
• In all literary history there is no such figure as Dante, no such homogeneousness of life and works, such loyalty… — James Russell Lowell
• All right, then, I'll say it: Dante makes me sick. — Lope de Vega
• Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem… — Edwin Muir
• Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
• To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground. — Vanna Bonta
• Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is… — Harold Bloom
• Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long. — Nathaniel Parker
• Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and… — Edward Abbey
• I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch,… — Charles Bukowski
• The ultimate Mystery of being, the ultimate Truth, is Love. This is the essential structure of reality. When Dante spoke… — Venerable Bede

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