“Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart. W. H. Auden
“Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle
“O, give me burning blue and brittle burnt sea-weed above the tide-line, as I stand, still unsatisfied, under the long shadow-on-snow of the pine. Hilda Doolittle (H. D.)
“The flowers withered, Their color faded away, While meaninglessly I spent my days in the world And the long rains were falling. Ono no Komachi