Flies

Famous quotes containing the word flies:

“but what can be done gull gull when you turn the sun
on again, a dead fruit
and all that flies today
is crooked and vain and has been cut from a book.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“I don’t know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.”
—Otis Criblecoblis, U.S. screenwriter. W.C. Fields (W.C. Fields)

“I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)