Red Imported Fire

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

“Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“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 in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)