Measure/legal

Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or legal:

    “Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “Narrative prose is a legal wife, while drama is a posturing, boisterous, cheeky and wearisome mistress.”
    —Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)