Famous quotes containing the words basic and/or syllables:
“It is easier to move rivers and mountains than to change a person’s basic nature.”
—Chinese proverb.
“I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;
And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
And how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped for
her.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)
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