Short Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or syllables:

    [On being asked “what sort of future she anticipates having”:] A very short one.
    Jeanne Calment (b. c. 1875)

    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)