“eleven months.
now she's gone
gone as they go.”
Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“How many are there who live eleven months on the hope of the twelfth given to some brief but delightful wandering.”
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English poet and novelist 1802–1838Related quotes
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Foreword, p. vii (opening words).
“For everything that's lovely is
but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Never Give All The Heart http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1545/ <br class="br">In The Seven Woods (1904) <br class="br">Source: Poems <br class="br">Context: Never give all the heart, for love<br>Will hardly seem worth thinking of<br>To passionate women if it seem<br>Certain, and they never dream<br>That it fades out from kiss to kiss;<br>For everything that's lovely is<br>but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.<br>O never give the heart outright,<br>For they, for all smooth lips can say,<br>Have given their hearts up to the play.<br>And who could play it well enough<br>If deaf and dumb and blind with love?<br>He that made this knows all the cost,<br>For he gave all his heart and lost.
“How many of you have broken no laws this month?”
John Gilmore (1955) Internet activist, software programmer and contributor to the GNU project
As quoted in a speech http://www.toad.com/gnu/cfp.talk.txt to the First Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy in 1991
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945) Nazi officer, Commander of the SS
To Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Quoted in "Hitler and the Final Solution" - Page 137 - by Gerald Fleming - History - 1987
Undated
“For those slain at once.
For those living through the months and years
Enduring, watching, hoping”
Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist
Litany for Dictatorships (1935)
Context: For those slain at once.
For those living through the months and years
Enduring, watching, hoping, going each day
To the work or the queue for meat or the secret club,
Living meanwhile, begetting children, smuggling guns,
And found and killed at the end like rats in a drain.
“The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.”
Fred Brooks (1931) American computer scientist
Page 17, cf. Theodore von Kármán (1957): "Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month."
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (1975, 1995)