Quotes by Syllables They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each. C. S. Lewis syllables twenties long Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Carl Sandburg syllables barriers poetry A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable. Don DeLillo syllables persons fall Syllables govern the world. George Bernard Shaw syllables world Some syllables are swords. Henry Vaughan syllables To convey one’s mood John Cooper Clarke syllables seventeen mood Just get the right syllable in the proper place. Jonathan Swift syllables that darkest of syllables, death. Mary McMullen syllables