Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or words:
“O flight,
bring her swiftly to our song.
She is great,
we measure her by the pine trees.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“It is the human season on this sterile air
Do words outcarry breath the sound goes on and on.
I hear a dead man’s cry from autumn long since gone.
I cry to you beyond upon his bitter air.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)