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I pictured Dante kissing her, telling her everything was all right. Dante who loved kissing dogs, who loved kissing his parents, who loved kissing boys, who even loved kissing girls.
For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was different. Now he knew Dante. He'd known Dante. And wonder of wonders, Dante had known him right back.
I suppose we were heretic,' he thinks out loud, But, Sandro, you're not dead ... '
'There's no time here,' the painter replied, 'Everyone who will ever die is already here.'
'Then Dante really got it wrong.'
'He knows.'
'He's in Hell too?'
'He visits on Sundays.
For a few minutes I wished that Dante and I lived in the universe of boys instead of the universe of almost-men.
A good hunter did not rush into a den of lions unprepared, and Dante was a very good hunter.
Jade: "You've got to propel rock star, not Sons of Anarchy."
Dante: "Sons of what?"
Jade: "Don't you watch television?"
Dante: "I only rent videos, and they all start with a P and end with a big O.
For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.
Dante: Want me to get your name inked on me? How about on my arm?
Jamie: No. That's boring.
Dante: How about over my heart then?
Jamie: No. That's corny.
Dante: Is not.
Jamie: Is too.
Dante: We'll discuss it later.
And believe me, the Catholic Church has much to thank Dante for. His Inferno terrified the faithful for centuries, and no doubt tripled church attendance among the fearful.
He closed his eyes and let his head fall back, his visage a portrait of sex. (A description of Dante).
[A]ll I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.
Dante, this
is Annabelle."
No. No way. That name is
reserved for females with grace
and elegance, not this girl. This girl
is ... beastly. "Annabelle," I say.
"It suits you.
There is a reason Dante made betrayal the deepest level of Hell
As lost as I get, I will find you, Heather. Always - Dante
Greta: At one point, you practically stalked poor Dante.
Jamie: Stalked? No, I just watched him. At night. From behind a bush. Using night-vision googles.
How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?
And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.
Wow, a world without darkness. How beautiful was that?
Kerry pretended to ignore Dante
Blood hell, what happened to you?" - Dante
The dark wisard and I had a mild disagreement." -Viper
What sort of disagreement?" -Dante
I thought he should be dead and he disagreed." -Viper
I think I was punishing Dante. He had given me a piece of himself that he had never given to another human being. And I hadn't even bothered to look at it. Why was I doing that?
I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then; but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived. I
Dante thought a state of eternal, rapturous contemplation, and few have proffered more specifics than that. Post-redemption theology seems an oxymoron.
Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely a part of the 'prosaic'.
Surreal. It was his word of the week. This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.
My father nodded. 'Ari, the problem isn't just that Dante's in love with you. The real problem
for you anyway
is that you're in love with him.
Why would you want my given name?"
"Because I'd like to call out your given name when I thrust into you."
~Dante
If you could have anything, Dante, anything at all, what would it be? She slurs.
Her. I want Charlie.
She did not know what she had expected from her Dante, but she definitely hadn't received it. So with the wisdom that comes only from having experienced a broken heart, she resolved to let him go once and for all.
Dante and Shakespeare divide the world between them. There is no third.
I was reflecting, in the first place," replied Dantes, " upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained. What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?
Dante's definition of hell: proximity without intimacy. From the Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath.
Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy," he said.
Dominic Chocolate!!!
When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.
Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.
Dantes remained confused and silent by this explanation of the thoughts which had unconsciously been working in his mind, or rather soul; for there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those from the heart.
We always have choices. Isn't that what Dante teaches us?
This is insane," I said blankly. "I'm the instrument of an all-powerful primordial deity's wave of chaos and destruction."
"That's kind of extreme" said Dante jovially. "It's not like you work for Google or anything.
Bon chance, mon ami, Dante called softly.
Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad.
Dante Alighieri. The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Dominic spelled it.
Whatsamatter?" Dante scraped a hand over his abs, his neck, the side of his face
collecting his jizz. He sucked his pleasure off his lower lip. "I gave myself a fuckin' necklace.
Dante Alighieri is a universal poet, and great creators, they are writing for everybody always. Every single verse is very moving, and the beauty - if we don't understand, we just stay listening to the sound and it's like hearing music.
His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included in his DIVINE COMEDY from the writings of al-Farghani (whom he referred to by his Latin name, Alfraganus).
To say she is only a woman is to say a violin is a piece of wood with strings, and Dante is mere ink printed on paper.
The secret signal which one generation passes, under disguise, to the next is loathing, hatred, despair. Dante
Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.
So she was to be savagely heartbroken and then poisoned by one of their cook's noxious herbal brews in the space of a few hours? Dante would find inspiration in this day.
We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very badcompany, and was never invited to dinner.
Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.
Lucan (in response to Dante's request for advice) - Kiss of Crimson
Certainly, he was the only one in the room who'd actually engaged Dante in direct conversation and informed the Poet he was an ass.
I felt a bit like Dante, chancing upon one of his old acquaintances in the nth circle of hell.
Dante's Hell is part of our world as much as part of the underworld, and shouldn't be avoided, Lowell said, but rather confronted. We sound the depths of Hell very often in this life.
Dante can be understood only within the context of Italian thought, and Faust would be unthinkable if divorced from its German background; but both are part of our common cultural heritage.
Impossibly (A Dante's Nine MC Novel) by Colleen Masters.
Dante and this Palero were definitely playing some sort of game, and I didn't know the rules, which was fine with me. Whenever a game became too complicated, I just set the board on fire.
To many writers and thinkers, though not to all, another text is, or can be, the most naked and charged of life-forces ... The concept of allusion or analogue is totally inadequate. To Dante these other texts are the organic context of identity. They are as directly about life as life is about them.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you ...
DANTE: And what if you found out you were right? What if it meant that I could hurt you?
RENEE: I would not say that I'm not scared. Everyone has the ability to hurt. It's the choice that matters.
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
To continue what one had been doing
which was Dante's idea of hell
is, I came to see, and the vision frightened me, easy in one's sixties.
Crowley (An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards)
You think everyone pervs you."... "That's cos they do, and you're just jealous, cos I'm gorgeous and you're not." ~ conversation between Dante &Ash
I guess I didn't have it so bad.Maybe everybody didn't love me,but i wasn't one of those kids that everyone hated,either.
I was good in a fight.So people left me alone.
i was almost invisible.i think i liked it that way.
And then Dante came along.
In Dante's philosophy, lust is a misplaced love, but a kind of love nonetheless. For this reason, it is the least evil of the seven deadly sins.
Just then Dante leaned against him, brow between his shoulder blades for a moment, so tentatively Griff held his breath. His voice was almost sheepish. Nah. Everyone knows I was born defective. They didn't instal you until later.
Angel, who found a flower blooming in hell and died for it ...
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.
It's a good thing I love you, because you officially just scared the shit out of me."
"A good thing yea," Dante agreed, squeezing her hand before releasing it.
"She's not alone in those sentiments," the Morningstar said, "Except for the love. I make no clamis there yet, little creaw-Dante
Gabriel, Michael, Raphael.
Who are you?
Your angel. Vengeance.
[ ... ]Are both of you ... ?"
"Manscaped?" Dante smiled. "I'm fucking Italian; I been mowing my lawn since I was thirteen.
I got a Lucifer soul. I'll be the Devil's son, Devil's work, gettin' work.
I'm pretty damn sure Dante meant to make weddings one of the levels of hell and just forgot.
So it was that Dantes, during the Hundred Days and after Waterloo, remained under lock and key, forgotten, if not by men, at least by God.
The chief imagination of Christendom,br>Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himselfbr>That he has made that hollow face of hisbr>More plain to the mind's eye than any facebr>But that of Christ.
Criminy. Whatever. Just do something."
"Criminy?" Than stared. "Seriously? Big, bad, Mohawk-haired demon says 'criminy'?"
"Yes, criminy." Hades rubbed his bare chest. "And, fuck off.
FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm.] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee,
I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
Assure my soul to be great Lucifer's,
Chief lord and regent of perpetual night!
Riley Blackthorne - kicking hell's ass one demon at a time.
Because I love you!"
There it was, out in the air. Griff's eyes got wide. The words had come out angry, but Dante had meant them. He couldn't open his perfect mouth and swallow them back.
His face softened. "In love, I mean. With you. For so long.
Dante chuckled low. "There's my blush."
And of that second kingdom will I sing Wherein the human spirit doth purge itself, And to ascend to heaven becometh worthy. -Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio, Canto I.004-006.
I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion.
a she-demon with a tunnel to Hades between her ever-scissoring legs? You had better staff a priest, my friend. A satanic priest." Lucian fell to the floor now, kicking and holding his stomach. "Stop!" he begged, sobbing. "Stop, no more.
Christopher Columbus
Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart ...
... and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.
The chief imagination of Christendom,
Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself
That he has made that hollow face of his
More plain to the mind's eye than any face
But that of Christ.
Richard Dawson must
It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium.
Zobrist may have been a lunatic, he thought, but he certainly had a sophisticated grasp of Dante.
Perdonare
"Forgive Yourself)
Thirteen years ago, I found myself professionally in the same "dark wood" described by Dante in the introduction to The Inferno. For the
Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.
Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. He believes in you.
Plato is never sullen, Cervantes is never petulant, Demosthenes never comes unseasonably, Dante never stays too long.
From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole,
'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold.
The path of light is laid, the sacred test,
Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.
Follow me, then, said the abbe, as he re-entered the subterranean passage, in which he soon disappeared, followed by Dantes.
Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.
Who's the Angelfucker now?