Note Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words note and/or syllables:

    “His ear is so sensitively attuned to the bugle note of history that he is often deaf to the more raucous clamour of contemporary life.”
    —Aneurin Bevan (1897–1960)

    “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)