Dragon quote

Lately many of the blogs I read have been incorporating quotes from films. I thought I'd try to start a new trend picking one of my all-time favourite quotes from literature:

Through me the way into the suffering city,
Through me the way to the eternal pain,
Through me the way that runs among the lost.
Justice urged on my high artificer;
My maker was divine authority,
The highest wisdom, and the primal love.
Before me nothing but eternal things were made,
And I endure eternally.
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Now that one does not need embellishments or explanations -the description above the gates of hell has captured imaginations of generations since it was written some 700 hundred years ago.