Red Poppy

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or poppy:

    “Her breasts under her gown
    are cold,
    for a flower has grown,
    murex-red
    on the red gown.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

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