“Dante Alighieri
Birthplace: Florence, Italy
Famous poem: Divine Comedy
Famous quote: ‘Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.’
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Poetry — one of the most important and time-honored forms of literature in the world — brought us greats like William Shakespeare and W.B. Yeats to ancient poets like Homer and Dante Alighieri to American treasures like Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson.” –Mo Elinzano, Deseret News, March 20, 2015
