“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
“This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished,
for you, my love, my loss, my lesion,
a rosary of words to count out time's
illusions, all the minutes, hours, days
the calendar compounds as if the past
existed somewhere — like an inheritance
still waiting to be claimed.”
"The Litany" http://www.danagioia.net/poems/litany.htm <br class="br">Poetry, Interrogations at Noon (2001)
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