Numbers 33 and 43
By far the most famous poems from this collection, with one of the most famous opening lines in the English language, are numbers 33 and 43:
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Famous quotes containing the word numbers:
“Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)