Wet Fly Fishing

Famous quotes containing the words wet, fly and/or fishing:

    “O, you shall see him laugh till his face be like a wet cloak
    ill laid up.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo
    and come out painted on a ceiling.
    He wants to pierce the hornet’s nest
    and come out with a long godhead.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “A rat crept softly through the vegetation
    Dragging its slimy belly on the bank
    While I was fishing in the dull canal
    On a winter evening round behind the gashouse
    Musing upon the king my brother’s wreck
    And on the king my father’s death before him.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)