“Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
“I mark this day with a white stone.”
19 December 1863; he frequently used this or a similar phrase for especially notable days.
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English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898Related quotes
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Source: The Crucible (1953)
“Like to a stone
That rolls down a hill,
I have come to this day.”
Takuboku Ishikawa (1886–1912) Japanese writer
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Mario Savio (1942–1996) American activist
Quoted in an interview http://www.fsm-a.org/stacks/mario/savio_gilles.htm by Douglas Gilles (December 1994) from the film Free@30 (1996).
“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”
Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet
As a White Stone... (1916)
Context: As a white stone in the well's cool deepness,
There lays in me one wonderful remembrance.
I am not able and don't want to miss this:
It is my torture and my utter gladness. I think, that he whose look will be directed
Into my eyes, at once will see it whole.
“Shall I be gone long?
For ever and a day
To whom there belong?
Ask the stone to say
Ask my song.”
Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972) English poet
Is it far to go? (1963)
Horatio Nelson (1758–1805) Royal Navy Admiral
At the Battle of Copenhagen (2 April 1801) [citation needed]
1800s