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A fish, he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish-like smell.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Trinculo, in The Tempest, act 2, sc. 2, l. 25-6.
Finding a strange creature (Caliban) on Prospero's island.)
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Underwater eyes, an eel's
Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter:
(Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. An Otter (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Fish (fly-replete, in depth of June,
Dawdling away their wat'ry noon)
(Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), British poet. Heaven (l. 1-2). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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Wallowing in this bloody sty,
I cast for fish that pleased my eye
(Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. The Drunken Fisherman (l. 1-2). . .
Selected Poems [Robert Lowell]. (Rev. ed. 1977; repr. 1993) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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English literature is a flying fish.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. "Notes on the English Character," pt. I (1920), in Abinger Harvest (1936).)
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Do fish ever get seasick.
(James Joyce (1882-1941), Irish author. Ulysses, ch. 13, "Nausicaa," The Corrected Text, ed. Hans Walter Gabler, Random House (1986).
One of Leopold Bloom's random questions during the day.)
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Some ghosts are women,
neither abstract nor pale,
their breasts as limp as killed fish.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Ghosts.")
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About the Shark, phlegmatical one,
Pale sot of the Maldive sea,
The sleek little pilot-fish, azure and slim,
(Herman Melville (1819-1891), U.S. poet, novelist. The Maldive Shark (l. 1-3). . .
Selected Poems of Herman Melville. Hennig Cohen, ed. (1991) Fordham University Press.)
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A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
(Gloria Steinem (b. 1934), U.S. feminist writer. Attributed.
Although the quote is generally attributed to Steinem, there is evidence that the words were current as a graffito in the 1970s, in the form, "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.")
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There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said,
Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British satirical poet. Poetical Miscellanies (1709). January and May, l. 101-2.
A translation of Chaucer The Merchant's Tale, written aged sixteen or seventeen.)
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