Red Imported Fire

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

“At her best
she is all red muscle, humming in and out, cajole
by time. Where I go, she goes.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“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)

“Although sleep pressed upon my closing eyelids, and the moon, on her horses, blushed in the middle of the sky, nevertheless I could not leave off watching your play; there was too much fire in your two voices.”
—Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)