“The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“O to break loose, like the chinook salmon jumping and falling back, nosing up to the impossible stone and bone-crushing waterfall. Robert Lowell
“There Leviathan Hugest of living creatures, on the deep Stretch’d like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land, and at his gills Draws in, and at his trunk spouts out a sea. John Milton
“Glos’ter girls they have no combs, Heave away, heave away! They comb their hair with codfish bones. Anonymous: Shanties
“The codfish lays ten thousand eggs, The homely hen lays one. The codfish never cackles To tell you what she’s done. And so we scorn the codfish, While the humble hen we prize, Which only goes to show you That it pays to advertise. Anonymous