Dante Alighieri
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
—Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, "The Inferno"
Posted on May 15, 2001 at 7:43 AM
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