Famous quotes containing the words time and/or span:
“We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.”
—Elizabeth Drew (18871965)
“Lifes brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.”
—Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 B.C.)