Long Count Dates

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

    “For certain minutes at the least
    That crafty demon and that loud beast
    That plague me day and night
    Ran out of my sight;
    Though I had long perned in the gyre,
    Between my hatred and desire....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “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)

    “Our dates are brief, and therefore we admire
    What thou dost foist upon us that is old,”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)