Long Vowels Shortened

Famous quotes containing the words long, vowels and/or shortened:

“Gods cool in turn, by the sun long outlasted.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)

“Playing “bop” is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing.”
—Duke Ellington (1899–1974)

“Now they express
All that’s content to wear a worn-out coat,
All actions done in patient hopelessness,
All that ignores the silences of death,
Thinking no further than the hand can hold,
All that grows old,
Yet works on uselessly with shortened breath.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)