Twenty Minutes

Famous quotes containing the words twenty minutes, twenty and/or minutes:

    While on the shop and street I gazed
    My body of a sudden blazed;
    And twenty minutes more or less
    It seemed, so great my happiness,
    That I was blessèd and could bless.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    I was ten when they buried you.
    At twenty I tried to die
    And get back, back, back to you.
    Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    And since the average lifetime—the relative longevity—is far greater for memories of poetic sensations than for those of heartbreaks, since the very long time that the grief I felt then because of Gilbert, it has been outlived by the pleasure I feel, whenever I wish to read, as in a sort of sundial, the minutes between twelve fifteen and one o’clock, in the month of May, upon remembering myself chatting ... with Madame Swann under the reflection of a cradle of wisteria.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)