“An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”
Kazuo Ishiguro book An Artist of the Floating World
Source: An Artist of the Floating World
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“What's his offense?
Groping for trout in a peculiar river.”
William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
Source: Measure for Measure
W.B. Yeats book Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 4. <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/ <br class="br">Context: I write it out in a verse—<br>MacDonagh and MacBride<br>And Connolly and Pearse<br>Now and in time to be,<br>Wherever green is worn,<br>Are changed, changed utterly:<br>A terrible beauty is born.
“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
November 11, 1854
Referring to an 1849 dairyman's strike, during which there was suspicion of milk being watered down
Journals (1838-1859)
Variant: Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
“Like most science-fiction writers, Trout knew almost nothing about science.”
Kurt Vonnegut book Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
“Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream.
I'm not, she said.”
Richard Brautigan book Trout Fishing in America
Source: Trout Fishing in America
Adlai Stevenson (1900–1965) mid-20th-century Governor of Illinois and Ambassador to the UN
Paying tribute to the late Eleanor Roosevelt in a speech to the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey (27 August 1964); as quoted in Adlai Stevenson (1966) by Lillian Ross, p. 28; reproduced in America's Political Dynasties: From Adams to Clinton https://books.google.com/books?id=fk3DCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA203&lpg=PA203&dq=%22she+thought+of+herself+as+an+ugly+duckling%22&source=bl&ots=zS_p_jcEUk&sig=VKkYj1KNceIA3Yf2oqV3h6-f8Go&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjP69yckJLTAhWDYyYKHaooC68Q6AEIITAB#v=onepage&q=%22she%20thought%20of%20herself%20as%20an%20ugly%20duckling%22&f=false (2015) by Stephen Hess, p. 203
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
Source: 1900s, Our National Parks (1901), chapter 1: The Wild Parks and Forest Reservations of the West