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“The fire breather is beneath the clover, and beneath his breathing there is cold clay forever”
― Joanna Newsom

“And see, my son! the hour is on its way,
That lifts the Goddess to imperial sway;
This favourite isle, long severed from her reign,
Doveline, she gathers to her wings again”
― Alexander Pope

“Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears”
― Louis MacNeice, Poetry of the Thirties

“Rejoice, Florence, seeing you are so great that over sea and land you flap your wings, and your name is widely known in Hell!”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso