Open Accented Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or syllables:

    “Before I am lost,
    hell must open like a red rose
    for the dead to pass.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “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)