"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 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)