Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".

Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

We remain
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.