Flies

Famous quotes containing the word flies:

“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 (1928–1974)

“The flies swarmed on the putrid vulva, then
A black tumbling rout would seethe
Of maggots, thick like a torrent in a glen....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks
And far beyond the discords of the wind.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)