Footfall Pattern

Famous quotes containing the words footfall and/or pattern:

    ““I weave the shoes of Sorrow:
    Soundless shall be the footfall light
    In all men’s ears of Sorrow,
    Sudden and light.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Swift while the woof is whole,
    turn now my spirit, swift,
    and tear the pattern there,
    the flowers so deftly wrought,
    the border of sea-blue,
    the sea-blue coast of home.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)