Short Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or syllables:

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils;
And her quick look, a sidelong pickerel smile;
And how, once startled into talk, the light syllables leaped for
her.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)