Whistled Speech

Famous quotes containing the words whistled and/or speech:

    “Alone and alone nine nights I lay
    Between two bushes under the rain;
    I thought to have whistled her down that way,
    I whistled and whistled and whistled in vain.
    Oro, oro!
    To-morrow night I will break down the door.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “It is poverty’s speech that seeks us out the most.
    It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
    This is the tragic accent of the scene.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)