Dress is not only something you wear or otherwise adorn your body with. It also inspires poets, whether seriously or not, but always very colourful and often very unexpected. The editors of the TRC website will publish some of these poems. We start with the poem A Coat, by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939).
Poem ´The Coat´, by William Butler Yeats, text painted onto the wall of Lange Mare 31/33, Leiden, The Netherlands.
I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From head to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world's eyes
As though they'd wrought it.
Song, let them take it
For there's more enterprise
In walking naked.
