Light Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words light and/or syllables:

    “A lover may bestride the gossamers
    That idles in the wanton summer air,
    And yet not fall; so light is vanity.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “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)