Norman Maclean Quote

Poets talk about "spots of time", but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time is until suddenly the whole world is a fish and the fish is gone.


A River Runs Through It (ed. University of Chicago Press, 1989) - ISBN: 9780226500607


Poets talk about spots of time, but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time...

Poets talk about spots of time, but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time...

Poets talk about spots of time, but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time...

Poets talk about spots of time, but it is really the fishermen who experience eternity compressed into a moment. No one can tell what a spot of time...