line taken from american/british poet t.s. eliot's 1919 poem 'the love-song of j. alfred prufrock'. see for more information about this poem j alfred prufrock.part of the orginal text is as follows:

For I have known them all already, known them all:--
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from a farther room.
So how should I presume?