Straw Bales

Famous quotes containing the words straw and/or bales:

“That when she essayed
To drink lemonade,
She slipped through the straw and fell in.”
—Unknown. There Was a Young Lady of Lynn (l. 3–5)

“No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, “O sea-starved hungry sea.””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)