dozen quotes

A good poet is someone who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times; a dozen or two dozen times and he is great.

- Randall Jarrell
  Poetry and the Age,'The Obscurity of the Poet'.

Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Said by Duchess of Berwick. LadyWindermere's Fan, act1.