Against the notion of a New Year

'My idea of paradise is a perfect automobile travelling over a smooth road at thirty miles an hour to a twelfth century cathedral'
- Henry James

'I would like to write poetry so old-fashioned it seemed radically new'
- Allen Curnow

'I have nothing new to ask of you,
Future, heaven of the poor...

the hands of the clock still enter without knocking'
- WS Merwin

'Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling'
- TE Hulme

'That busy insect
the clock
is eating away my life'
- Charles Reznikoff

'The end of time is continuous'
- Roger Rountree

'Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans'
- John Lennon