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

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Eugenio Montale

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“[It's] not one thing this year, one thing another year.”
“I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world, about trying to clear a bit the misty lake of insubstantial dreams, which reflect reality like the lake reflects the mountains.”

Source : Carlo Rovelli (2007). “Quantum Gravity”, p.17, Cambridge University Press
“Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.”
“Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.”
“As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.55, BoD – Books on Demand
“God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.”
“A true champion is not only formed in victory. To be defeated makes you learn.”
“I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead. (I know dead people, and you are not dead.)”

Source : Franz Wright (1993). “The night world and the word night: poems”, Carnegie Mellon Univ Pr

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