Red Imported Fire

Famous quotes containing the words red, imported and/or fire:

    “Where the slow river
    meets the tide,
    a red swan lifts red wings
    and darker beak.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
    You may get a bland smile from these sages;
    But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
    Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “The fire I praise was once perduring flame
    Till it snuffs with our generation out;
    No matter, it’s all one, it’s but a name
    Not as late honeysuckle half so stout....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)