Famous quotes containing the words short and/or writing:
“A short reign does not spare the masses.”
—Publius Papinius Statius (c. 40–96)
“Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)