"if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don't do it." Pick up a variorum Yeats some time and see how much he rewrote--final version "The Lame

"if you have to sit there and rewrite it again and again, don't do it." Pick up a variorum Yeats some time and see how much he rewrote--final version "The Lament of the Old Pensioner" looks very little like the original.