Light Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or syllables:

“When it is dark in the east, it is light in the west; when things are dark in the south there is still light in the north.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)