Divine Comedy Quotes - Page 2

• O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

  Dante Alighieri

  Littles, Bitterness, Faults

  Dante Alighieri (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Dante Alighieri (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Savages, Littles

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy”, p.3, Tyché

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• I believe in the future a new Dante will write a new Divine Comedy.

  Ba Jin

  Believe, Writing, Comedy

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• All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

  Dante Alighieri

  Pedestal, Inferno, Gates Of Hell

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

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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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sorry, Taken, Angel

  Dante Alighieri, “Inferno Canto 03”

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• 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.

  Dante Alighieri

  Journey, Doe, Half

  Dante Alighieri (1982). “The divine comedy of Dante Alighieri: a verse translation”

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• He listens well who takes notes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Notes, Wells

  Dante Alighieri (2006). “Inferno: The Comedy of Dante Alighieri, Canticle One”, p.122, Hackett Publishing

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• Midway upon the journey of our life

  Dante Alighieri

  Journey, Midway, Our Lives

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, Dante Alighieri

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• I found myself within a forest dark.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Forests, Found

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, Dante Alighieri

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• 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.

  Edward Hirsch

  Way, Helping, Comedy

  "A Poet Is Born". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. February 4, 2010.

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• The Divine Comedy' is very sophisticated but also very popular.

  Roberto Benigni

  Comedy, Sophisticated, Divine

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

  Joshua Mohr

  Writing, Might, Comedy

  "The Fight in Joshua Mohr". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 12, 2013.

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• 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.

  W. S. Merwin

  Writing, Mean, Caring

  "An Interview with W. S. Merwin, Poet Laureate". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. October 25, 2010.

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