William Butler Yeats, one of the great poets of the English language, tells us that “..a line will take us hours maybe;/ Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought/ Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”
Do you agree? Do you see there the writing and re-writing, and re-writing that can make our 'written utterance' into a spontaneous, 'sharp and witty' prose, as a reviewer recently put. Stitching and unstitching can make so "The scenes the author has created made me laugh, made me feel sad, and had me questioning myself..."
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