Long Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or vowels:

    And the truth becomes a hole, something one has always known,
    A heaviness in the trees, and no one can say
    Where it comes from, or how long it will stay
    A randomness, a darkness of one’s own.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)