Nonsense Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words nonsense and/or syllables:

    “Poet, patting more nonsense foamed
    From the sea, conceive for the courts
    Of these academies, the diviner health
    Disclosed in common forms.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “This is the poem of the air,
    Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
    This is the secret of despair,
    Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
    Now whispered and revealed
    To wood and field.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)