Time Reference Quotes

Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.

People put dates on any kind of comment that you make.

... for those of us who lived through these events, the only marker we'll ever need is the tick of a clock at the 46th minute of the eighth hour of the 11th day.

When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

Nearly every notable event in 'Wake' has a date or a time stamp.

I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

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.

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

These are the days after. Everything now is measured by after.

A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have a driving tempo. In other words, you know, you can go back and forward; you can comeback; you can linger. You know, it's a completely different time reference.

Today was tomorrow yesterday so don't inhale.

Some wee short hour ayont the twal.