The past is a funeral gone by.

The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has never before, in the world's history, been an epoch which has tolerated and even welcomed such a flood of verse as has been poured forth over Great Britain during the last three years.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.