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)

    “Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens
    Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p’raps a Duke of
    Dickens—”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “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)