Famous quotes containing the word numerous:
“I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.”
—Albert Camus (19131960)
“Much poetry seems to be aware of its situation in time and of its relation to the metronome, the clock, and the calendar. ... The season or month is there to be felt; the day is there to be seized. Poems beginning When are much more numerous than those beginning Where of If. As the meter is running, the recurrent message tapped out by the passing of measured time is mortality.”
—William Harmon (b. 1938)
“I dwell in Possibility
A fairer House than Prose
More numerous of Windows
Superiorfor Doors”
—Emily Dickinson (18301886)
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