111 Quotes About Dante

We're our own heroes.

It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger, a place where you can, like Dante, find yourself going down into Hell. But if it’s any comfort, the dark wood isn’t just that. It’s also a place of opportunity and adventure. It is the place in which fortunes can be reversed, hearts mended, hopes reborn.

A l'alta fantasia qui mancò possa;ma già volgeva il mio disio e'l vellesì come rota ch'igualmente è mossa,l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

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

There is no greater sorrowThan to recall a happy timeWhen miserable.

Dante had wings. And, holy mother of saints, they were beautiful-soulless jet-black with midnight-blue veins, the color of lost wishes and fallen stardust.

Could Beatrice have written like Dante,or Laura have glorified love's pain?I set the style for women's speech.God help me shut them up again!

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

Dante said, “I tried talking Nora into a ride, but she keeps blowing me off.”“That’s because she has a hard-A boyfriend. He must have beenhomeschooled, because he missed all those valuable lessons we learned in kindergarten, like sharing. He finds out you took Nora for a ride, he’ll wrap this shiny new Porsche around the nearest tree.