Syllables Quotes

“I want to see the thirst
inside the syllables
I want to touch the fire
in the sound:
I want to feel the darkness
of the cry. I want
words as rough
as virgin rocks.” - Verb.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

“You've got to be kid-
Well, crud, what just happened there?
I ran out of syl-”
― Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle

“Cosmos is God, who whispered the syllable of life.”
― Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun

“i swallowed the syllables of your name
and i was full.”
― AVA., this is how you know i want you.

“Thank you," I said bravely, dropping the syllables cleanly, like marbles, and secretly full of the most pathetic pride imaginable. I had spoken to strangers.”
― Alexis Hall, Waiting for the Flood

“While a single word spoken might appear to be little more than a handful of syllables, it can rain down a lifetime of destruction. Therefore, the more you keep your mouth shut, the less it rains.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“another nameless dusk
passing over the Arabian Sea

last rowboats
dimly visible

at the sealine hem
you, reading

from a holy book
syllables as crisp as the oncoming rain.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“As I work over clauses and commas, I understand that rhythm and cadence have little connection to import, but they should carry the reader on a pleasurable journey. Sentences can be long, three or more complete clauses dancing together, or two clauses with one leaning on the other, or an added phrase of only a few syllables. Sentences and paragraphs are as various as human beings.”
― Donald Hall, Essays After Eighty

“Is there a star more wide open
than the word poppy?

Are there two fangs sharper
than the syllables of jackal?”
― Pablo Neruda, The Book of Questions