Letter Word

Famous quotes containing the words letter and/or word:

    “Of all the barbarous middle ages, that
    Which is most barbarous is the middle age
    Of man! it is—I really scarce know what;
    But when we hover between fool and sage,
    And don’t know justly what we would be at—
    A period something like a printed page,
    Black letter upon foolscap, while our hair
    Grows grizzled, and we are not what we were.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “Where are now the warring kings,
    Word be-mockers? By the Rood
    Where are now the warring kings?
    An idle word is now their glory,
    By the stammering schoolboy said....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)