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  • This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward angels, the company of those who were not rebels nor faithful to their God, but stood apart. The heavens, that their beauty not be lessened, have cast them out, nor will deep Hell receive them - even the wicked cannot glory in them.

    Sorry   Taken   Angel  
    Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”
  • The secret of getting things done is to act!

  • The Divine Comedy is a political poem and when you say poetry is not about - he's always quoted out of context, that "poetry makes nothing happen," that doesn't mean you shrug your shoulders and don't try to make anything happen. And Dante felt that poetry was engaged, there was a point of view; it's not my point of view, it's orthodox medieval Christianity, and I have my troubles with that. He didn't feel that you could just rule out so important a section of life - we care about these things, and it's out of caring about them that we write poetry.

    Writing   Mean   Caring  
    "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.
  • From a little spark may burst a flame.

    Flames   May   Littles  
  • If Dante was writing The Divine Comedy in 2013, he might very well have set part of it in the suburbs.

    Writing   Might   Comedy  
    "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.
  • The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. The objective world remains what it was, but, because of a shift of emphasis within the subject, is beheld as though transformed. Where formerly life and death contended, now enduring being is made manifest-as indifferent to the accidents of time as water boiling in a pot is to the destiny of a bubble, or as the cosmos to the appearance and disappearance of a galaxy of stars.

    Stars   Destiny   Men  
  • I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

    Depth   Literature   Saws  
    Dante Alighieri (2001). “The Paradiso”, p.12, Penguin
  • [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

    Inspirational   Men   Joy  
    "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.
  • For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

    Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.10, Dante Alighieri
  • When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray.

    Journey   Doe   Half  
    Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”
  • The love that moves the sun and the other stars.

    Love   Life   Stars  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.48, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • I found myself within a forest dark.

    Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, Dante Alighieri
  • Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.

  • Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here.

    Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”
  • The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

  • A great model for this is the way that Dante calls on Virgil at the beginning of 'The Inferno,' 'The Divine Comedy,' to help guide him through the underworld.

    Way   Helping   Comedy  
    "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.
  • He listens well who takes notes.

    Dante Alighieri (2006). “Inferno: The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Canticle One”, p.122, Hackett Publishing
  • He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle.

  • O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?

    Fall   Race   Wind  
    Dante Alighieri (1919). “The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri”
  • Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I shall endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.

    Pain   Cities   People  
    Dante Alighieri (1846). “The vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, tr. by H.F. Cary. With notes”, p.18
  • If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

  • Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

  • I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more.

    Dark   Savages   Littles  
    Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy”, p.3, Tyché
  • There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

    Dante Alighieri, Stanley Lombardo (2009). “Inferno”, p.26, Hackett Publishing
  • Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

    Dante Alighieri (2014). “Dante's Inferno [translated]: Modern English Translation”, p.21, BookBaby
  • We're taking part in a divine comedy and we should realise that the play is always a comedy, in that we're all ultimately ridiculous.

    "The view from Hastings" by Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2002.
  • O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

    Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics
  • The entire Bible, viewed as a "divine comedy," is contained within a U-shaped story of this sort, one in which man, as explained, loses the tree and water of life at the beginning of Genesis and gets them back at the end of Revelation.

    "The Great Code: The Bible and Literature". Book by Northrop Frye, 1981.
  • Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men.

    Heart   Pride   Men  
  • All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

    Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary (2010). “The Divine Comedy”, p.210, Bibliolis Books
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