Twilight/length

Famous quotes containing the words twilight and/or length:

“Love that had robbed us of immortal things,
This little moment mercifully gave,
Where I have seen across the twilight wave
The swan sail with her young beneath her wings.”
—George Meredith (1828–1909)

“He thought he saw an Elephant,
That practiced on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
“At length I realize,” he said,
“The bitterness of Life!””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)