Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. – Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
If a man examine carefully his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. – Emerson, Journals, 1827
Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesnt. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading. – Jack Prelutsky