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Syllables Quotes

Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable.

Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.

Don DeLillo (2011). “Cosmopolis”, p.13, Pan Macmillan

that darkest of syllables, death.

Mary McMullen (1987). “The Other Shoe”, Jove Publications

Some syllables are swords.

Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1871). “The Poetical Works of Herbert and Vaughan: With a Memoir”, p.112

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.60, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED