The farms of Ohio have been replaced by shopping malls, And musak fills the air from Seneca
to Cuyahoga Falls. Hey. Ho. Where’d ya’ go, Ohio? – The Pretenders
They listened at his heart. Little—less—nothing!—and that ended it. No more to build on there.
And they, since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs. – Robert Frost
Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror crack’d from side to side; ‘The curse is come upon me!’ cried,
The Lady of Shalott. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. – The Life and Death of King Richard II
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. – Winston Churchill
The past is not dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner
Though I am old with wandering through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, and kiss her lips and take her hands, And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck ’til time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun. – Yeats