Rope Mill Road

Famous quotes containing the words rope, mill and/or road:

    “They have gone about the world like wind,
    But little time had they to pray
    For whom the hangman’s rope was spun,
    And what, God help us, could they save?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “My temptation is quiet.
    Here at life’s end
    Neither loose imagination,
    Nor the mill of the mind
    Consuming its rag and bone,
    Can make the truth known.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Down the road someone is practicing scales,
    The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails,”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)