A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem … — William Butler Yeats

"A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set."

William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

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Source: William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

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William Butler Yeats

Poet, Playwright

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and playwright, notable for his profound exploration of love, identity, and the human experience in works like 'The Second Coming.'

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