"When the savage spirit quits the body from which it has torn itself, then Minos sends it to the seventh maw. It falls into the wood, and there's no space to which it is allotted, but wherever fortune has flung that soul, that is the space where, even as a grain of spelt, it sprouts." (Dante's Inferno; canto XIII; 93-99)
This quote represents poetic justice in Dante's Inferno because it illustrates how the spirits have that which they misused taken from them. Their bodies were given to them by God and they were unthankful for them. That is why they are later punished as trees, condemned to miss what they wasted for all eternity.
