Quotes from Dante Alighieri's books, and about them
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History on The Divine Comedy: “Dante's heart, long filled with this, brooding over it in speechless thought and awe, bursts forth at length into "mystic unfathomable song;" and this his _Divine Comedy_, the most remarkable of all modern Books, is the result.”
The Woman in White on The Divine Comedy: “I teach the sublime Dante to the young Misses, and ah!—my-soul-bless-my-soul!—it is not in human language to say how the sublime Dante puzzles the pretty heads of all three!”
North and South on The Divine Comedy: “it was the Paradise of Dante, in the proper old Italian binding of white vellum and gold”
Main Street on The Divine Comedy: “When Dr. Westlake quoted the "Paradiso," "Don Quixote," "Wilhelm Meister," and the Koran, she reflected that no one she knew, not even her father, had read all four.”
New Grub Street on The Divine Comedy: “Whilst I was writing “On Neutral Ground” I went solidly through the “Divina Commedia,” a canto each day.”
Penguin Island on The Divine Comedy: “imaginary descriptions, like Dante Alighieri's 'Divine Comedy,' of the supposed abode of the dead”
The Red Lily on The Divine Comedy: “Take the Divine Comedy, Eusebio. It is the white book which you see on the table.”
Demian on The Divine Comedy: “I named her Beatrice, because without having read Dante I already knew about Beatrice from an English painting I had a reproduction of.”