Poem Quote by Toby Fitch

“WAS THERE STILL SOMETHING MURMURING? WAS IT still the kind murmuring of Plotius, protecting and kind and strong? oh, Plotius, oh, that it might…

— Hermann Broch

“We need, between us and the fish which, if we saw it for the first time cooked and served on a table, would not…

— Marcel Proust

“Any clear thing that blinds us with surprise, your wandering silences and bright trouvailles, dolphin let loose to catch the flashing fish... saying too…

— Robert Lowell

“This is a poem about death, about the heart blanching in its fold of shadows because it knows someday it will be the fish…

— Mary Oliver

“It was a sight full of quick wonder and awe! The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as…

— Ishmael

“I was the solitary plover a pencil for a wing-bone From the secret notes I must tilt upon the pressure execute and adjust In…

— Lorine Niedecker

“The other fish think me proud or discontented with my station. The birds think I'm beneath them. Even submerged I am out of my…

— Andrea Cohen

“Thou must be like a promontory of the sea, against which though the waves beat continually, yet it both itself stands, and about it…

— Marcus Aurelius

“Thirsty for being, the poet ceaselessly reaches out to reality, seeking with the indefatigable harpoon of the poem a reality that is always better…

— Julio Cortázar

“What is more exhilarating than to make your staunch little boat, obedient to your will and muscle, go skimming lightly over glistening, tilting waves,…

— Helen Keller

“A fish earns its greatest strength in tempestuous waters.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“And at the word alone, Will felt a great wave of rage and despair moving outwards from a place deep within him, as if…

— Philip Pullman