Heavy Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words heavy and/or syllables:

“You will surely wear yourself out, both you and these people with you. For the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 18:18.

Moses’ father-in-law to Moses.

“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)