“'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind.” SoundWindBeesSyllablesBumble Bee Author:Hortense Calisher
“[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.” LongMatterAgeCausesSoundNumbersPoetFitTragedyFaultsNotesMusicalDelightInventionPrimeItalianQuantityVersesRejectedRhymeWretchedAvoidedMeterLameSyllablesOratory Author:John Milton
“The thing is to sift out the important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bring hints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil for the life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragment for the sentence.” LittlesImportantLostSoundMistakeKissingSentencesFossilsFragmentsHintsSyllablesVowels Author:Richard Jackson
“The Brain is just the weight of God-- For--Heft them--Pound for Pound-- And they will differ--if they do-- As Syllable from Sound” IfsSoundBrainWeightPoundsSyllables Book:Dickinson Source: Dickinson
“Sweetheart, darling, dearest, it was funny to think that these endearments, which used to sound exceedingly sentimental in movies and books, now held great importance, simple but true verbal affirmations of how they felt for each other. They were words only the heart could hear and understand, words that could impart entire pentameter sonnets in their few, short syllables.” ThinkingHeartBookUsedFeltSoundSimpleImportanceTrue LoveLove At First SightAffirmationSentimentalDarlingSonnetImpartSyllablesSweetheartEndearment Author:E. A. Bucchianeri