Inferno... Dante Alighieri

Dai Dudu, Li Tiezi και Zhang An (oil on canvas, 2006).
 "Discussing the Divine Comedy with Dante" 

[…]

The Guide and I into that hidden road

  Now entered, to return to the bright world;

  And without care of having any rest

 

We mounted up, he first and I the second,

  Till I beheld through a round aperture

  Some of the beauteous things that Heaven doth bear;

 

Thence we came forth to rebehold the stars.

 

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow