History Quote by Jeet Thayil

“Poets are never happy with the things that are happening in our world.”

— Avijeet Das

“We live entirely in the past, nourished by dead thoughts, dead creeds, dead sciences. And it is the past which is engulfing us, not…

— Henry Miller

“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,…

— Milan Kundera

“It is not the past that matters,but the future”

— Agatha Christie

“Poets always hate those in power. To them perfection is always just behind the last corner, or beyond the next. They escape the present…

— Robert E. Howard

“When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.”

— Mandy Hale

“History does not care about the suffering of the individual. Only the outcome of their struggles.”

— Alison Goodman

“Nothing is more important to a nation than its history. It is the earth upon which any society stands.”

— Robert Harris

“For the past is passed and will never return, the future we know not, and only the present can be called our own.”

— Maria Corelli

“For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall…

— Ted Kennedy

“I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying…

— Anonymous

“Time is not ours and we would not own it. It does not wound us to say so. from the prose poem INNOCENCE”

— Jay Woodman