After the Ending
Lyrics, The Empyrean (2009)
“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.”
Book I, lines 361-362
See also "One of our poets (which is it?) speaks of an everlasting now", Robert Southey, The Doctor, chap. xxv. p. 1
Davideis (1656)
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Abraham Cowley 40
British writer 1618–1667Related quotes
“Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing.”
“Light and Night,” p. 28
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “Skywalking”
A New Earth (2005)
Variant: Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?
Source: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“Nothing can be lasting when reason does not rule.”
Nihil potest esse diuturnum cui non subest ratio.
IV, 14, 19.
Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, Book IV