Long Count Dates

Famous quotes containing the words long, count and/or dates:

“Meanwhile I, deserted, was lamenting a little to myself your long delays in foreign loves, until sleep with its pleasing wings compelled me, fallen.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

“You count your lover fair,
your bride or your bride-groom,
yet you would shun the room
where their enchantments are.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)