meagre quotes

   One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few.

- Denis Diderot
^81 Pense  es de  tache e s sur la peinture.

Tawny are the leaves turned but they still hold, And it is harvest; what shall this land produce? A meagre hill of kernels, a runnel of juice; Declension looks from our land, it is old. Therefore let us assemble, dry, gray, spare, And mild as yellow air.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Chills and Fever,'Antique Harvesters'.