“Achilles weeps. He cradles me, and will not eat, nor speak a word other than my name.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Words that weep and tears that speak.”
The Prophet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn", Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, iii. 3, 4.
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