Latest Roberto Benigni Quotes from Interviews

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• Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys sentiment, emotions. He is really the greatest poet ever. So I am really very proud to present the shining pearl of Italian culture around the world.

  Roberto Benigni

  Italian, Imagination, Shining

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Dante Alighieri was not only a Christian poet or a priest, he was a man. He was a real poet. We can understand that the goal of Divine Comedy is beauty. You don't need also to understand Italian or to know Italian, because when Dante's writing, when we recite Dante out loud, it explodes a cosmos of illumination like to recite music, a symphony.

  Roberto Benigni

  Christian, Real, Writing

  Source: film.avclub.com