| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
| |
| |
| NUMBER: | 7278 |
| QUOTATION: | creamy iridescent coats of mail, with small iridescent flies crawling on them. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Elizabeth Bishop (19111979), U.S. poet. At the Fishhouses (l. 2425). . .
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. |
| |
| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
|
|