Famous quotes containing the words measure and/or distance:
“The measure of the little while
That I’ve been long away.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Remember? We sat on a slab of rock.
From this distance in time,
it seems the color
of iris, rotting and turning purpler,
but it was only
the usual gray rock”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)