Poppies Quotes
Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.30
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
Bayard Taylor (1857). “Poems of the Orient”, p.20
I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.
Marilyn Buck (2012). “Inside/Out: Selected Poems”, p.56, City Lights Publishers
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 59
"In Flanders Fields" l. 1 (1915)
The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below
'In Flanders Fields' (1915)
'Oral history interview with Edward Hopper' conducted by John Morse, 'Archives of American Art', Smithsonian Institution, June 17, 1959.
Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.53, F+W Media, Inc.
John Keats (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.24
I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
Czeslaw Milosz, “Dedication”
Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.148
Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.421, A&C Black
Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.
Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.28, Anchor