Long Count Dates

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

    “Exiled from his friends,
    is kept too long distressed
    in an island, sea swept,
    in the sea midst,
    a forest island,
    haunt of a spirit.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.”
    —Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)

    “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)