Red Poppy

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or poppy:

    “The god has not yet answered to our pity
    For the black vision and tangle in her brains,
    Nor is there knowing soever in the city
    Of the red histories that throbbed in her blue veins.”
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    The young woman-smell
    Of your poppy body
    Rises to my brain as opium
    Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)