William Butler Yeats
Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
I said, 'A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's though
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones.'
.
Yet if it does not seem a moment's though
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones.'
.
In the Seven Woods, 1904. Adam's Curse
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