Wells Wrote

Famous quotes containing the words wells and/or wrote:

    “‘But where can we draw water,’
    Said Pearse to Connolly,
    ‘When all the wells are parched away?
    O plain as plain can be
    There’s nothing but our own red blood
    Can make a right Rose Tree.’”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life—I wrote this some years ago—that were worth the postage.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)