" 'You appear to me to be melancholia depicted by a great painter,' Zampolo says at the beginning to Caravia (who, in fact, in an engraving on he title page is represented in the pose of Duerer's Melancholia)." The Cheese and the Worms, by Carlo Ginzburg.

That was fun.

In the beginning Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Iluvatar, made the Ainur of his thought; and they made a great Music before him. In this Music the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur, and they beheld it as a light in the darkness.

The SilJmarillion, by.R.R. Tolkien

P.S. I like Tim's version better :)

P.P.S. I wrote 2 lines, because it made a complete thought, and I like to be cool.