Red Imported Fire

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

    “She kisses her killed boy.
    And she is sorry.
    Chaos in windy grays
    through a red prairie.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “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)

    “Do they know they’re old,
    These two who are my father and my mother
    Whose fire from which I came, has now grown cold?”
    —Elizabeth Jennings (b. 1926)