“A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.” MenWorldYearsEarthPastTimeOrderHoursSleepBrokenCirclesThreadArousalTimes Past Author:Marcel Proust
“When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood.” MayStatesEyeLastsTimeHeavenSunBloodLandBrokenShiningUnionsGloriousLast TimeFragmentsFeudsFraternal Author:Daniel Webster
“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” TimeNatureRocksFlowerBrokenMountainVioletMountaineeringBroken PromisesRose Flower Book:Camino Real Source: Camino Real
“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.” WorldYearsGodTimeBlackBehindsFeetBrokenPassingPassingsYeastOxen Author:William Butler Yeats