Longest Single Span

Famous quotes containing the words longest, single and/or span:

    “The longest day must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.”
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    “the whole field is a
    white desire, empty, a single stem;
    a cluster, flower by flower,
    a pious wish to whiteness gone over—
    or nothing.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “The last bear, shot drinking in the Dakotas
    Loped under wires that span the mountain stream.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)