Accent Marks

Famous quotes containing the words accent and/or marks:

“I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“The clock runs down
timeless and still.
The days and nights turn hours to years
and water in a gutter marks the circle of another world
hating, resentful, and afraid
stagnant, and green, and full of slimy things.”
—Margaret Abigail Walker (b. 1915)