Modern Dry Fly

Famous quotes containing the words modern, dry and/or fly:

“In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.”
—Calvin Trillin (b. 1940)

“The well was dry beside the door,
And so we went with pail and can
Across the fields behind the house
To seek the brook if still it ran....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“The day of fire is coming, the thrush
will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)