Famous quotes containing the words short and/or words:
“Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth,
And, ere a man hath power to say “Behold!”
The jaws of darkness do devour it up.
So quick bright things come to confusion.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The words of things entangle and confuse.
The plum survives its poems.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)