From the Hand of Prometheus

To suffer woes which Hope thinks infinite;
To forgive wrongs darker than death or night;
To defy Power, which seems omnipotent;
To love, and bear; to hope till Hope creates
From it's own wreck the thing it contemplates;
Neither to change, not falter, nor repent;
This, like thy glory, Titan, is to be
Good, great and joyous, beautiful and free;
This is alone Life, Joy, Empire, and Victory
Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound

God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.
Herman Melville, Moby‐Dick

When all the other animals, downcast looked upon the earth, he (Prometheus) gave a face raised on high to man, and commanded him to see the sky and raise his high eyes to the stars.
Ovid , Metamorphoses

They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?
C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Great Balls Of Fire!, Jerry Lee Lewis

Smoke On the Water, Deep Purple

Light My Fire, The Doors

Fire and Rain, James Taylor