"Quando fiam uti chelidon, ut tacere desinam? perdidi musam tacendo..." Catullus, "Pervigilium Veneris" "when shall I be as the swallow, that I may cease to be voiceless? I have lost the Muse in silence..." "Poi s'ascose nel foco che gli affina Quando fiam ceu chelidon...a la tour abolie...Shantih Shantih Shantih." "Then he hid himself in the refining fire/ When shall I become like a swallow?... in the ruined tower... (peace, peace, peace)" T. S. Eliot, "The Waste Land Part V: What the Thunder Said"