“Trochee trips from long to short;
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spondee stalks.”
"Metrical Feet" (1806)
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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834Related quotes
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“Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.”
Letter to Harrison Blake (16 November 1857)
Context: Let me suggest a theme for you: to state to yourself precisely and completely what that walk over the mountains amounted to for you, — returning to this essay again and again, until you are satisfied that all that was important in your experience is in it. Give this good reason to yourself for having gone over the mountains, for mankind is ever going over a mountain. Don't suppose that you can tell it precisely the first dozen times you try, but at 'em again, especially when, after a sufficient pause, you suspect that you are touching the heart or summit of the matter, reiterate your blows there, and account for the mountain to yourself. Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.
Barry, John D.. " "Bible Study Anyhwhere http://www.biblestudymagazine.com", Bible Study Magazine, Mar-Apr 2009, pg. 12.
“The days are long, but the years are short.”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“Art is long, life is short.”
Ars longa, vita brevis.
Seneca's (De Brevitate Vitae, 1.1) Latin translation of the Greek by Hippocrates.
Misattributed
“Short on glamour and long on tragedy.”
Describing World War II in his autobiography, By Quentin Reynolds (1963).