• Inferno of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

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• "And then, like someone labouring for breath / who, safely reaching shore from open sea, / still turns and stares across those perilous waves, --"
• "The stars that rose when I first stirred now fall."
• "What is the point? Why kick against your fate?"
• "You are the sun who heals all clouded sight."
• "Yet if we dream, near dawn, of what is true, --"
• "-- Allow no wave of thought / henceforth to break around his memory. / Attend to other things. / And let him be."
• "Less shame -- makes clean / far greater fault than yours has been. And so / cast off the weight of all your misery."
• "Because -- through all these wreaths of shade / you rush ahead too far from what's at hand, / you form of it a blurred and empty image."
• "-- From mouths / the cold, from hearts their miseries force / a public testament to suffering."
• "Whatever will you weep for, if not that?"
• "Hard, cruel earth, why did you not gape wide?"