
“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”
Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
“Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.”
Mon Dernier soupir (My Last Sigh, 1983)
“But now the route that used to wear out a solid day barely takes two hours.”
At nunc, quae solidum diem terebat,
horarum via facta vix duarum.
iii, line 36
Silvae, Book IV
“Give me songs
to sing
and emerald dreams
to dream
and I'll give you love
unfolding.”
“It usually takes me two or three days to prepare an impromptu speech.”
Variant: It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Quoted in C.R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Composed Chiefly of His Letters (1843) (Phaidon, London, 1951) p. 273
posthumous, undated
“We try to get more done in two hours than other teams do in two weeks.”
Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-StanzaFP91.htm, st. 1 (1821).