Close Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words close and/or vowels:

    “Although I have come close on forty-nine,
    I have no child, I have nothing but a book,
    Nothing but that to prove your blood and mine.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “These equal syllables alone require,
    Though oft the ear the open vowels tire;”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)