Famous quotes containing the word flies:
“The wild beasts, sparrows pecking the llamas grain,
Pigeons settling on the bears bread, buzzards
Tearing the meat the flies have clouded. . . .”
—Randall Jarrell (19141965)
“but what can be done gull gull when you turn the sun
on again, a dead fruit
and all that flies today
is crooked and vain and has been cut from a book.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“But chief to heedless flies the window proves
A constant death; where gloomily retired,
The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce,
Mixture abhorred! Amid a mangled heap
Of carcases in eager watch he sits,
Oerlooking all his waving snares around.”
—James Thomson (17001748)
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