Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earthö And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Dejection:  An Ode', stanza 4.

   A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls

-Korzeniowski

And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and th'earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him, where to look for it.

-Donne,John
  'An  Anatomy of the World: The First  Anniversary'.

Let us draw an arrow arbitrarily. If as we follow the arrow we find more and more of the random element in the world, then the arrow is pointing towards the future; if therandomelement decreasesthearrow pointstowards the past† I shall usethe phrase'time's arrow'to express this one-way property of time which has no analogue in space.

-Eddington, SirArthur Stanley
  The Nature of the Physical World, ch.4. Martin  Amis used the phrase'Time's  Arrow' for the title of his1991novel.

See how the Orient dew, Shed from the bosom of the morn Into the blowing roses, Yet careless of its mansion new; For the clear region where 'twas born Round in its self encloses: And in its little globes extent, Frames as it can its native element.

-Marvell, Andrew
c.1650^1652  'On a Drop of Dew' (published1681).

   Each human spirit is immortalöfor time cannot destroy

-Murphy, Dervla

   Row upon row with strict impunity The headstones yield their names to the element.

-Tate, (John Orley) Allen
  Poems1922^1947,'Ode to the Confederate Dead'.