For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life -- the lesson of your utter insignificance.
Source: The New York Times/ 6/12/1989
-- Joseph Brodsky, (May 24 1940-1996), Russian-US poet; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems; first foreign-born US poet laureate, 1991.