“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.”
“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?”
“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.”
“Whoso beset him roundWith dismal storiesDo but themselves confound;His strength the more is.”