Written Vowels

Famous quotes containing the words written and/or vowels:

“And cried, ‘Before I am old
I shall have written him one
Poem maybe as cold
And passionate as the dawn.’”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“As no one can tell what was the Roman pronunciation, each nation makes the Latin conform, for the most part, to the rules of its own language; so that with us of the vowels only A has a peculiar sound.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)