Absolution Quote by Coventry Patmore

“Salmon swim against my stream of consciousness.”

— Jarod Kintz

They had a year of joy, twelve months of the strange heaven which the salmon know on beds of river shingle, under the gin-clear…

— Anonymous

“He suddenly felt the intense sad loveliness of being as being, apart from right or wrong: that, indeed, the mere fact of being was…

— T.H. White

“we worship the salmon because we eat salmon”

— Sherman Alexie

Glory be to God for dappled things for skies of couple-color as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out,…

— John Wolcot

Not the bee upon the blossom, In the pride o' sunny noon; Not the little sporting fairy, All beneath the simmer moon; Not the…

— Robert Burns

The sun rose on the flawless brimming sea into a sky all brazen-all one brightening for gods immortal and for mortal men on plowlands…

— Homer

Pure and undimmed, thy angel smile Is mirrored on my dreams, Like evening's sunset-girded isle Upon her shadowed streams: And o'er my thoughts thy…

— Benjamin

The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as…

— John D. Voelker

“Some of the young ladies even ate the salmon without concern to vital humors--when everyone knew colored fish flesh could bring on an attack…

— Gail Carriger

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.

— Robert Burns