Body Length

Famous quotes containing the words body and/or length:

“Summer, this is our flesh,
The body you let mature;
If now while the body is fresh
You take it, shall we give
The heart....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro’ the body.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)