Quotations About / On: YESTERDAY

  • 41.
    The very timber and boards and shingles of which our houses are made grew but yesterday in a wilderness where the Indian still hunts and the moose runs wild.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. "Ktaadn" (1848) in The Maine Woods (1864), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 3, p. 90, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 42.
    I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
    (Alphonse Karr (1808-1890), French journalist, novelist. quoted in The Goncourt Journal, entry for Feb. 20, 1853 (trans. 1962). Karr was on trial together with Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, accused of writing articles offensive to public morals.)
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  • 43.
    As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiences of the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 1, p. 7, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 44.
    We had to take the world as it was given:
    The nursemaid sitting passive in the park
    Was rarely by a changeling prince accosted,
    The mornings happened similar and stark
    In rooms of selfhood where we woke and lay
    Watching today unfold like yesterday.
    (Adrienne Rich (b. 1929), U.S. poet and feminist. "Ideal Landscape," lines 1-6 (1955).)
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  • 45.
    The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.
    (Frank Lloyd Wright (1869-1959), U.S. architect. "Night is but a Shadow Cast by the Sun," pt. 5, The Living City (1958). Closing words.)
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  • 46.
    But I died yesterday,
    "Daddy," I died,
    swallowing the Nazi-Jap-animal
    and it won't get out
    it keeps knocking at my eyes,
    my big orphan eyes....
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Daddy' Warbucks.")
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  • 47.
    'Yesterday I saw God. What did he look like? Well, in the
    afternoon I climbed up a ladder—he as a cheap cabin in the
    country, like Monroe, NY the chicken farms in the wood. He was a lonely old man with a white beard.
    (Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926), U.S. poet. Kaddish (l. 98). . . Allen Ginsberg: Collected Poems 1947-1980 (1984) Harper and Row.)
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  • 48.
    Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
    toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
    ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
    would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Lost Ingredient.")
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  • 49.
    Today, the mass audience (the successor to the "public") can be used as a creative, participating force. It is, instead, merely given packages of passive entertainment. Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's questions.
    (Marshall McLuhan (1911-1980), Canadian communications and media theorist, and Quentin Fiore. The Medium Is the Massage, Random House (1967).)
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  • 50.
    Mrs. Hall, of Sherborne, was brought to bed yesterday of a
    dead child, some weeks before she was expected, owing to a
    fright. I suppose that she happened unawares to look at her
    husband.
    (Jane Austen (1775-1817), British novelist. Letter, October 27, 1798, to her sister, Cassandra. Jane Austen's Letters, Oxford University Press (1952).)
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