Temporal Reference Quotes

I need something to compare this to. Could I please have a microsecond?

A lot of my poems either have historical sequences or other kinds of chronological grids where I'm locating myself in time. I like to feel oriented, and I like to orient the reader at the beginning of a poem.

We started putting '2000' at the end of our name. That was in 1985, and 2000 seemed very futuristic.

I was probably cool around the end of 2002.

We are now in the middle of the centre of the first half.

To begin with, poor people´s memory is less nourished than that of a rich; it has fewer landmarks in space because they seldom leave the place where they live, and fewer reference points in time throughtout lives that are grey and featureless.

In school, the year was the marker. Fifth grade. Senior year of high school. Sophomore year of college. Then after, the jobs were the marker. That office. This desk. But now that school is over and I've been working at the same place in the same office at the same desk for longer than I can truly believe, I realize: You have become the marker. This is your era. And it's only if it goes on and on that will have to look for other ways to identify the time.

One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.