“The past is dead, the future is life.-Alexander M.”

“As the future ripens in the past,so the past rots in the future --a terrible festival of dead leaves.”

“The dead are the past and we cannot escape the past. Without the past there will be no future.”

“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not the future. The future always has and always will belong to—the poet.”

“Life is the future, not the past. The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created a new.”

“Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.”