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  • I am the way into the city of woe.
    I am the way to a forsaken people.
    I am the way into eternal sorrow.
    Sacred justice moved my architect.
    I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
    Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
    Only those elements time cannot wear
    Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
    Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

    Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (1954). “The inferno”, Signet