“Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , book Voices of the Night

St. 4.
Cf. Andrew Marvell, Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649): "Art indeed is long, but life is short".
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Source: Voices of the Night

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American poet 1807–1882

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Charles Lamb (1775–1834) English essayist

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“… an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.”

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“Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

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“The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleets,
The heart beats,
Nothing will die.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate

Nothing Will Die (1830)
Context: When will the stream be aweary of flowing
Under my eye?
When will the wind be aweary of blowing
Over the sky?
When will the clouds be aweary of fleeting?
When will the heart be aweary of beating?
And nature die?
Never, oh! never, nothing will die;
The stream flows,
The wind blows,
The cloud fleets,
The heart beats,
Nothing will die.

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Harry Dean Stanton (1926–2017) American actor, musician, and singer

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