John Milton – Paradise Lost
• “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”
• “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
• “Awake, arise, or be forever fallen.”

Charles Baudelaire – The Flowers of Evil
• “O Satan, take pity on my long misery!”
• “I have cultivated my hysteria with joy and terror.”
• “The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance.”

William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
• “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
• “The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.”
• “Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”

Lord Byron – Manfred
• “The mind which is immortal makes itself requital for its good or evil thoughts— is its own origin of ill and end— and its own place and time.”
• “I am the same, hearing the same wild blast.”