Single Syllable

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or syllable:

    “... this single span,
    Reaching for the world, as our lives do,
    As all lives do, reaching that we may give
    The best of what we are and hold as true:
    Always it is by bridges that we live.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not understand a syllable of it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)