After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania wrote: `` I am well convinced in my own mind that had it not been for officers this war would have ended long ago ''.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

An eminent member of this school, Georges Duby, wrote in the foreword of his book Le dimanche de Bouvines that the history he taught relegated the sensational to the sidelines and was reluctant to give a simple accounting of events, but strived on the contrary to pose and solve problems and, neglecting surface disturbances, to observe the long and medium-term evolution of economy, society and civilisation.

" My heart bleeds with the memories of those days ", he wrote, " and even long years, of cheerless anxiety and hopeless dependence.

The Count of Mérode-Westerloo, commander of the Flemish troops in Tallard's army wrote – " One thing is certain: we delayed our march from Alsace for far too long and quite inexplicably.

He wrote other tragedies for a time, but he was not long in discovering that his bent was for comedy.

Later, he wrote long adventure novels dealing with Oriental life.

Coanacoch did not have long to enjoy his reprieve — Ixtlilxóchitl wrote that he died a few days later.

He wrote several hundred articles, some very slight, but many of them laborious, comprehensive, and long.

Afterwards, Lieberman wrote a poem about the experience and shared it with Norman Gimbel, who had long been searching for a way to use a phrase he had copied from a novel badly translated from Spanish to English, " killing me softly with his blues ".

Also that year he wrote on Husserl's Ideen ( 1913 ) a long review published by a French journal.

" The enemy would long ago have been beaten ," he wrote to Vienna, " if everyone had done their duty.

Late in his long writing career he wrote a few books of interest to science fiction and

For Golb, the amount of documents is too extensive and includes many different writing styles and calligraphies ; the ruins seem to have been a fortress, used as a military base for a very long period of timeincluding the 1st centuryso they could not have been inhabited by the Essenes ; and the large graveyard excavated in 1870, just 50 metres east of the Qumran ruins was made of over 1200 tombs that included many women and childrenPliny clearly wrote that the Essenes that lived near the Dead Sea " had not one woman, had renounced all pleasure ... and no one was born in their race ".

As Eugene Wigner wrote: " Ten days before Fermi had died he told me, ' I hope it won't take long.

In the fourth season premiere, Ross and Rachel briefly reconcile after Ross pretends to read a long letter that Rachel wrote for him, but continues to insist that the two were on a break so they break up again.

He also wrote a long treatise on Medicine, History of Life and Death, with natural and experimental observations for the prolongation of life.

Fyvel wrote about Orwell: " His crucial experience ... was his struggle to turn himself into a writer, one which led through long periods of poverty, failure and humiliation, and about which he has written almost nothing directly.

Their last meeting was in 1658 at Hampton Court, though they could not speak for long or meet again because of the Protector's worsening illness — Fox even wrote that " he looked like a dead man ".

In his work, History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote about a single long conflict that lasted 27 years between Athens and Sparta with its origins and results.

Marrow and other Crips wrote and performed " Crip Rhymes ", long before the advent of hip hop and recorded rapping.

With the neoplatonist Plotinus, wrote Nathaniel Alfred Boll ; " there even appears, probably for the first time in Western philosophy, idealism that had long been current in the East even at that time, for it taught … that the soul has made the world by stepping from eternity into time …".

As he wrote at the time, " Am reading a couple of stories for possible musicalization ( if there is such a word ) but I hope I don't like them as I think I deserve a long rest.

" One can ’ t neglect the people too long ," he wrote.

Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895.

On the pinnacle of that mountain, the words of the poem started to come to her, and she wrote them down upon returning to her hotel room at the original Antlers Hotel.

During these visits Shelley wrote the poem " Mont Blanc ", Byron wrote " The Prisoner of Chillon " and the dramatic poem Manfred, and Mary Shelley, who found the scenery overwhelming, conceived the idea for the novel Frankenstein in her villa on the shores of Lake Geneva in the midst of a thunderstorm.

Zoticus, a Neoplatonist philosopher of the 3rd century AD, wrote an epic poem based on Plato's account of Atlantis.

He wrote the first important symphonic work in Chilean tradition, " La Muerte de Alcino ", a symphonic poem inspired by the novel of Pedro Prado.

He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch in 1912 ).

The Beowulf manuscript was transcribed from an original by two scribes, one of whom wrote the first 1939 lines and a second who wrote the remainder, so the poem up to line 1939 is in one handwriting, whilst the rest of the poem is in another.

William Cowper wrote a popular poem, " Boadicea, an ode ," in 1782.

" Victoria's Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, wrote a poem, " Boadicea ," and several ships were named after her.

In 1903, Bartók wrote his first major orchestral work, Kossuth, a symphonic poem which honored Lajos Kossuth, hero of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848.

* Archibald MacLeish wrote a poem entitled " You Also, Gaius Valerius Catullus ," where he addresses the poet.

Charles won a national competition, run by The Guardian newspaper, for a poem he wrote when he was 12-years-old.

During this trip, he further conceived the character of Conan and also wrote the poem " Cimmeria ", much of which echoes specific passages in Plutarch's Lives.

In 1860, Edward Watson, a friend of Henry David Thoreau wrote a poem called " The Cranberry Tart.

In his 1341 poem, The Iron Cannon Affair, one of the first accounts of the use of gunpowder artillery in China, Xian Zhang wrote that a cannonball fired from an eruptor could " pierce the heart or belly when it strikes a man or horse, and can even transfix several persons at once.

Catullus wrote a poem to Diana in which she has more than one alias: Latonia, Lucina, Iuno, Trivia, Luna.

A poem he wrote memorializing Mary was published in the Bennington Gazette.