Variant: So long and thanks for all the fish.
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.”
Radio broadcast, London, Dieu Protège La France [God protect France], October 21, 1940 ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/LaFrance.html).
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.”
Tales of Southern Rivers (1924).
“In Heraclitus' river
a fish has imagined the fish of all fish”
"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
Context: In Heraclitus' river
a fish has imagined the fish of all fish,
a fish kneels to the fish, a fish sings to the fish,
a fish begs the fish to ease its fishy lot.
"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
"The Pterodactyl" in Sky Hook #16, (Winter 1952-53); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
Context: Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless
Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive
Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact
Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press
Form's flesh around thought's rib, and so derive
From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.
“Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.”
“Peacocks have the bright feathers. Fish have the long tails. Women have the mall.”
Source: My Double Life
“735 days in North Korea was long enough. But I’m thankful.”
Kenneth Bae: ‘735 days in North Korea was long enough’ https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2016/june/kenneth-bae-my-story-of-faith-in-north-korean-prison-camp.html (May 2, 2016)
