Twelve Days

Famous quotes containing the words twelve and/or days:

    “it was you untying the snarls and knots,
    the webs, all bloody and gluey;
    you with your twelve tongues and twelve wings
    beating, wresting, beating, beating
    your way out of childhood,
    that airless net that fastened you down.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East,—to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them,—who were above such trifling.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)