Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"I'm all about 'I'/ Give the rest of the vowels back"
Vowels quotes
Vowels
18 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Patti Smith
Musician
"Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)"
John Oliver
Comedian
"My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of someone from Birmingham, and then I was raised in Bedford, which is just north of London. So my accent, if it's possible, makes even less sense to a Brit than to an American."
William S. Burroughs
Writer
"We can translate word and letter into color - [Arthur] Rimbaud stated that in his color vowels, words quote "words" can be read in silent color."
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