Reading Time: 3 minutes Time has long tormented humans and by extension our poets and thinkers (particularly as they aged). These passages, chosen from across the ages, are ones that have touched me. They deal with eternal themes regarding the "passage of time", uncertainty around the "future", the futility of time and in particular its ravages. Shakespeare, Sonnet 19 This ravaging of and by time is palatable in Shakespeare's work. In this Sonnet, the poet even personifies time, painting it as the great monster that has no favourites and devours all before it. This is of the Father Time tradition [...]