“Dante was the first to sing of heaven and of hell, not as the dreams of mythological fiction, but as the objects of a real faith. He was the first who lanched from this promontory on which we stand, into the vast immensity of the universe, traversed the abyss amidst demons and infernal tortures, and mounting afterwards through angelic hosts and undiscovered worlds, gazed with stedfast eye upon the glories of the Highest... Dante was the Columbus who discovered this new world of poesy... Dante probably surpassed even Homer himself.”
“All hope abandon, ye who enter here!”
Dante Alighieri
“Nature is the art of God.”
Dante Alighieri
“Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.”
Dante Alighieri
“My course is set for an uncharted sea.”
Dante Alighieri
“Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.”
Dante Alighieri