Passage of time

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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, June 1915, I. 51.

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Eliot, T. S. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." The Waste Land and Other Poems. Vintage, 2021, I. 51.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Marble Faun

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni. Vol. 2, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860, ch. 24.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Marble Faun, edited by Susan Manning. Oxford University Press, 2009, ch. 24.

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Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Directed by John Hughes. Paramount Pictures, 1986.

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Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." Hesperides; or the Works both Human and Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. London: John Williams, 1648.

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Herrick, Robert. "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." The Cavalier Poets: An Anthology, edited by Thomas Crofts. Dover Publications, 1995.

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"Independence Day." The Wonder Years, written by Neal Marlens and Carol Black and Bob Brush, directed by Michael Dinner, season 6, episode 22, The Black/Marlens Company and New World Television, 1993.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

John Lennon

Beautiful Boy

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Lennon, John. "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)." Double Fantasy. Geffen Records/Capitol Records, 1980.

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Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, Or What You Will. 1602, Middle Temple Hall, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Twelfth Night." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William and George Wilkins. Pericles, Prince of Tyre. King's Men, c. 1608, Globe Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "Pericles." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, [published anonymously]. "A Psalm of Life." The Knickerbocker. New York: Lewis Gaylord Clark, Oct. 1838, I. 13.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "A Psalm of Life." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, I. 13.

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Horace. Epistularum liber secundus [Second Book of Letters]. 14 BC, bk. 2, epistle 2.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 2, epistle 2.

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Ono no Komachi. Kokinshu [Kokin Wakashu]. c. 914.

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Ono no Komachi. "Kokinshu." Anthology of Japanese Literature, edited by Donald Keene. Vol. 1, Grove Press, 1994.

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Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

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Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.

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Rock, Chris. Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger. HBO, 27 Sept. 2008.

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Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, Mar. 1791.

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Burns, Robert. "Tam O'Shanter." Robert Burns: Selected Poems, edited by Carol Mcguirk. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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Shakespeare, William. Richard II. 9 Dec. 1595, The house of Edward Hoby, Westminster, London, England, UK, act 5, sc. 5.

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Shakespeare, William. "Richard the Second." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 5, sc. 5.

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Tennyson, Alfred. The Princess. London: Edward Moxon, 1847, pt. 4.

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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord. "The Princess." Alfred Tennyson: The Major Works, edited by Adam Roberts. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 4.

I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass-which is better than trying to fill them.

Emil Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born

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Cioran, Emil. De I’inconvenient d’etre ne [The Trouble with Being Born]. Arcade Publishing, 1973, ch. 1.

Does any one know where the love of God goes
When the waves turn the minutes to hours?

Gordon Lightfoot

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

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Lightfoot, Gordon. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Summertime Dream. Reprise Records, 1976.

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 60, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 60.