Red

Red

Red is the color of blood, a ruby, and strawberries. It is next to orange at the end of the visible spectrum of light, and is commonly associated with danger, sacrifice, passion, fire, beauty, blood, anger, socialism and communism, and in China and many other cultures, with happiness.

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Famous quotes containing the word red:

    “Now I am alone with the dead,
    flying off bridges,
    hurling myself like a beer can into the wastebasket.
    I am flying like a single red rose,
    leaving a jet stream
    of solitude....”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “their red cloaks
    wrapped tight to the bone”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
    So scant of grass, so profligate of pines,”
    —Jean Toomer (1894–1967)