“All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells.” ClearSeaRiversFishesGoldenBoatLakesFishingSpellsRainbowCharmingTails Book:Complete Poems Source: Complete Poems
“Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one of the big four - brownie, or brookie, cutthroat or rainbow - is the cause of it all” MenWorldDreamBigsLanguageCausesFourPlansSeaRiversFishesPlanningBoatLakesFishingRainbowBrowniesSpeaking The Same Language Author:Roderick Haig-Brown
“I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a strong, unmanageable fish, be it brook trout, brown trout, cutthroat, rainbow, steelhead or salmon on my line.” IfsKnowsFeelsStrongLinesDoubtSeaRiversFishesBoatExcitementInstantBrownLakesFishingPanicRainbowBrooksTroutSalmon Author:Ed Weeks
“And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like a jewel bright./ Up through the waters of the stream/ An instant visible to sight/ As lightning cleaves to sombre sky/ A rainbow rises to the fly.” FallWaterSeaSkyRiversSightDepthFishesCurrentsBoatInstantStreamsVisibleLakesFishingSilverFlashLightningRainbowJewelsGleamDainty Author:John Buchan
“Gods should be iridescent, like the rainbow in the storm. Man creates a God in his own image, and the gods grow old along with the men that made them... But the god-stuff roars eternally, like the sea, with too vast a sound to be heard.” MenShouldMadeGrowsStuffSoundHeardSeaHe ManStormRainbowIridescent Book:The Plumed Serpent Source: The Plumed Serpent
“and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.” DarkBloodSeaGayFemaleMalesRoundsFishesBlissRainbowDelightedSkipDenseVenusDolphinsPorpoises Author:D. H. Lawrence