Carl Sandburg
Poet, Biographer
"Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable."
Syllables quotes
Syllables
8 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Jonathan Swift
Satirist, Writer
"Just get the right syllable in the proper place."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each."
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Syllables govern the world."
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