Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
Heinrich HeineTerrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.
Heinrich Heine