The truth is that all feeble spirits naturally live in the future,
because it is featureless; it is a soft job; you can make it
what you like. The next age is blank, and I can paint it freely
with my favourite colour. It requires real courage to face the past,
because the past is full of facts which cannot be got over; of men
certainly wiser than we and of things done which we could not do.
I know I cannot write a poem as good as Lycidas. But it is always
easy to say that the particular sort of poetry I can write will be
the poetry of the future.
-George Bernard Shaw (1909)
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