Compound Words

Famous quotes containing the words compound and/or words:

    We are all aware that speech, like chemistry, has a structure. There is a limited set of elements—vowels and consonants—and these are combined to produce words which, in turn, compound into sentences.
    Roger Brown (b. 1925)

    Take a woman talking,
    purging herself with rhymes,
    drumming words out like a typewriter,
    planting words in you like grass seed.
    You’ll move off.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)