Famous quotes containing the words close and/or vowels:
“I see her close beside me with silent lips sad and tremulous.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“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)