“One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!”
Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
“I, the solitary fish, a fish apart
(apart at least from the tree fish and the stone fish),
write, at isolated moments, a tiny fish or two
whose glittering scales, so fleeting,
may only be the dark's embarrassed wink.”
"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
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"In Heraclitus' River"
Poems New and Collected (1998), Salt (1962)
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