“ Not like would I write,Not like if I might,Not like at his best,Not like or the rest,Like myself, however small,Like myself, or not at all. William Allingham
“ Midway along the journey of our lifeI woke to find myself in a dark wood,for I had wandered off from the straight path.How hard it is to tell what it was like,this wood of wilderness, savage and stubb… Dante Alighieri
“ For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it. Arthur Schopenhauer