Henry David Thoreau:

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

I wanted to live deep and suck out the marrow of life.

To put to rout all that was not life, and not,

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Deliberately: med fuldt overlæg; med velberåd hu

put to rout:    jage på flugt.

TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME

Gather ye Rose-buds while ye may

Old Time is still a flying:

and this same flower that smiles to day,

To morrow will be dying.

The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,

The higher he´s a getting

The sooner will his Race be run,

and neerer he´s to Setting.

That Age´s best, which is the first,

When Youth and Blood are warmer;

But being spent, the worse and worst

Times, still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time;

And while ye may, goe marry:

For having lost but once your prime,

You may forever tarry.

Herrick