"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”
“If I fished only to capture fish, my fishing trips would have ended long ago.”
Tales of Southern Rivers (1924).
“The salmon may be cited as typically fish-shaped fish.”
Aerodynamics, constituting the first volume of a complete work on aerial flight (1906), Chapter 1, page 33
“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.
“I want to get out in the water. I wanted to see fish, real fish, not fish in a laboratory.”
Interview: Sylvia Earle Undersea Explorer http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/printmember/ear0int-1, Academy of Achievement, January 27, 1991
“There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!”
"Jumbo Go Away".
You Are What You Is (1981)
In response to a question in the House of Commons about the fishing industry losing money due to Brexit red tape https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2021-01-14/debates/329F59AC-D8A3-464D-AF4D-58C7EAA560C6/BusinessOfTheHouse#contribution-F5E677D7-58DE-4634-88A4-E97E2AA8F7E6 (14 January 2021)
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