Short Syllables

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or syllables:

“Young man—Young man—Your arm’s too short to box with God.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

“This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)