Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
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A great flame follows a little spark.
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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A fair request should be followed by the deed in silence.
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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Avarice, envy, pride, three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of all on Fire.
Dante Alighieri in The Divine Comedy
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Boston To Florence
Sent to 'The Philological Circle' of Florence for its
meeting in commemoration of Dante, January 27, 1881,
the anniversary of his first condemnation.
PROUD of her clustering spires, her new-built towers,
Our Venice, stolen from the slumbering sea,
A sister's kindliest greeting wafts to thee,
Rose of Val d' Arno, queen of all its flowers!
Thine exile's shrine thy sorrowing love embowers,
Yet none with truer homage bends the knee,
Or stronger pledge of fealty brings, than we,
Whose poets make thy dead Immortal ours.
Lonely the height, but ah, to heaven how near!
Dante, whence flowed that solemn verse of thine
Like the stern river from its Apennine
Whose name the far-off Scythian thrilled with fear:
Now to all lands thy deep-toned voice is dear,
And every language knows the Song Divine!
poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Poem Versus Prose
You do not like this poem
And I do not like your prose
Enough with your predicates
And your subjects
In this poem you will find
No commas and semicolons
This poem
Is armed with rhythms
Stanzas and shifts
This poem has no end
There are no colons
In this poem
Your prose is replete with nuances
This poem echoes
The plight of the oppressed
And dispossessed
In your prose I find parentheses
This poem speaks of life
Your prose can be edited
Cut this poem and it bleeds
You do not like this poem
And I do not like your prose
Prose has pauses and hyphens
Prose comes to a stop
This poem plugs images
Even in your head
Prose deals with fiction
And nonfiction
This poem can be heard
It can be felt
It speaks of hunger
Of hopelessness
Homelessness
It speaks of a bitter reality
You do not like this poem
poem by Buxton Shippy
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Love in its Purity
Love is a language of the heart-
It is prose and poetry
It is in film or comedy
And yet nothing can fathom
its own depth, height or breadth.
Love is a dream in every heart,
an object of conquest and war
It mirrors greed, pride and honor
And yet love's own purity remains
above intrigues and heroic motives.
Love is a gift from above -
an agape love from the heart of God
We humans can abuse it,
ignore it, trample on it, burn it
but love surfaces out so purely
in its inmost beauty to protect,
affirm, preserve and uphold life.
poem by Elizabeth Padillo Olesen
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I think that comedy really tells you how it is. The other thing about comedy is that - you don't even know if you're failing in drama, but you do know when you're failing in comedy. When you go to a comedy and you don't hear anybody laughing, you know that you've failed.
quote by Carl Reiner
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Creative comedy is like growing geraniums in a mine field.
quote by Jerry Stiller
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InAPPropriate Comedy
Adrien Brody, Lindsay Lohan, Michelle Rodriguez, Rob Schneider, Ari Shaffir, Dante, Allen Abrams, Anna Akana
from InAPPropriate Comedy (2013)
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Two schools of thought.
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The lady chose to take offence
Although I said she wrote fine prose
She may not know the difference
between poetry and prose
She thought that she wrote poetry
But what she wrote was free form prose.
I offered no apology
It was not my fault that she chose.
Not to learn the basic rules
defining prose and poetry
Two very different writing schools
in which to show your artistry.
The so called experts can’t agree
and coined the term poetic prose.
Though writing cannot possible
be classed as poetry and prose.
If it’s not metered it is prose
no matter how poetical.
But you’re entitled to compose.
Fine prose and call it poetry.
Though I suggest respectfully
you should be proud of writing prose.
As some do most successfully.
But it was poetry I chose
Thursday,11 March 2010
http: // blog.myspace.com/poeticpiers
poem by Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg
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People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.
quote by Pete Sampras
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The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master- something that at time strangely wills and works for itself.
quote by Charlotte Bronte
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Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
quote by Frederick Henry Hedge
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