Famous quotes containing the words short and/or narrative:
“A short reign does not spare the masses.”
—Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)
“Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)