length quotes

But Jarndyce and Jarndyce still drags its dreary length before the court, perennially hopeless.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^3  Bleak House, ch.1.

   Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length.

- Robert Lee Frost
   Title of poem.

Gertrude Stein's prose song is a cold, black suet- pudding†of fabulously reptilian length.

-Jose Lezama Lima
  Time and Western Man, pt.1, ch.13.

A chryselephantine poem of immeasurable length which will occupy me for the next four decades unless it becomes a bore.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  Onbeginning the poetic seriesTheCantos, which remained unfinished on his death.

The fact is, there are no rules and there never were any rules, and there never will be any rules of musical composition except rules of thumb; and thumbs vary in length, like ears.

- George Bernard Shaw
Music in London,1890^1894.

King of comforts, King of life, Thou hast cheered me, And when fears and doubts were rife, Thou hast cleared me. Not a hook in all my breast But thou fill'st it, Not a thought in all my rest But thou kill'st it. Wherefore with my utmost strength I will praise thee, And as thou giv'st line, and length, I will raise thee.

- Henry Vaughan
  Silex Scintillans,'Praise'.