Famous quotes containing the words vladimir, tells and/or dante:
“Just try to prove you’re not a camel!”
—Russian saying popular in the Soviet period, trans. by Vladimir Ivanovich Shlyakov (1993)
“She tells her love while half asleep
In the dark hours,
With half-words whispered low:”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“It appears to me that men are hired to run down men of genius under the mask of translators, but Dante gives too much of Caesar: he is not a republican.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)