Top 52 Quotes About Poppies
#1. Poppies bleed petals of sheer excess. You and I, this sweet battle ground.
Janet Fitch
#2. Little poppies, little hell flames,
Do you do no harm?
You flicker. I cannot touch you.
I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns.
Sylvia Plath
#3. These too are of a burning color
not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.
John Steinbeck
#4. The mown grass is growing again nearly to our knees; we will take a second crop of hay from this field, rich and green and starred with moon daisies, buttercups and the bright, blowsy heads of poppies.
Philippa Gregory
#5. The poppies might be wilted and trampled by the throng, but the memory of our fallen will live on and on and on.
David J. Delaney
#6. And the heart sounds like a sour conch,
calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,
scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:
the sea reports sonorously
on its languid shadows, its green poppies.
Pablo Neruda
#7. His thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies
Samantha Shannon
#8. Scarlet the poppies
Blue the corn-flowers,
Golden the wheat.
Gold for the Eternal:
Blue for Our Lady:
Red for the five
Wounds of her Son.
Adelaide Crapsey
#9. I dreamed today of bone-white horses, stamping and nuzzling in the bright sunshine, and of orange poppies which swayed and danced in the spring wind.
(Do not look back.)
Neil Gaiman
#10. And in the space that he had occupied in her memory she allowed a field of poppies to bloom.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#11. I am poppies in the field
Red and cold
I am sleeping alone
and
I am light
I am light
I am light
Bella Betina
#12. He knew the way to take a woman when he sent me the 8 big poppies because mine was the 8th
James Joyce
#13. When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.
Tom Hodgkinson
#14. The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.
John Keats
#15. When Tarquin the Proud was asked what was the best mode of governing a conquered city, he replied only by beating down with his staff all the tallest poppies in his garden.
Livy
#16. Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.
Thomas Hood
#17. Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.
John Keats
#18. A girl who never smiles has such power - what men will do to turn up but one corner of her mouth! She already wears her red war-gown and her circlet of cinnabar poppies. They bring out the color in her grimace.
Catherynne M Valente
#19. I have learned that love is often strongest where it is most threatened. Where it is most terrorised is where it most profusely grows.
Lillian White
I Would Send You Poppies
Lillian White
#20. You English words?
I know you:
You are light as dreams,
Tough as oak,
Precious as gold,
As poppies and corn,
Or an old cloak:
Sweet as our birds
To the ear,
As the burnet rose
In the heat
Of Midsummer
Edward Thomas
#21. In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.
Mark Burnett
#23. They passed a bed of opium poppies, dispetaled now; the round, ripe seedheads were brown and dry - like Polynesian trophies, Denis thought; severed heads stuck on poles.
Aldous Huxley
#24. I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.
Annie Dillard
#25. Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.
Barack Obama
#26. Central Intelligence cutting Meo opium fields! China Lobby copping poppies in Burma! How long this Addict government support our oil-burner matter-habit
Allen Ginsberg
#27. As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#28. We are slumberous poppies,
Lords of Lethe downs,
Some awake and some asleep,
Sleeping in our crowns.
What perchance our dreams may know,
Let our serious may know.
Leigh Hunt
#29. It's going to be really interesting to see what the heroin market does in the next two years or so. One thing you can be pretty sure of. The Afghan peasants who grow poppies won't get rich. The money will end up in places like Dubai.
Bruce Sterling
#30. Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
Robert Burns
#31. As often is the case after a powerful, destructive storm, it was an achingly beautiful day. Even so late in the summer, I could still hear the occasional skylark singing, and the fields were speckled with red poppies.
Patrice Kindl
#33. Something wild and foreign issued a cry within her, shattering through the pain in her head, and thoughts of poppies and cages faded away.
She must do what was necessary to save the crown - and her future.
Sarah J. Maas
#34. I am utterly, consummately intense, wearing sunflowers and poppies and dahlias in my buttonhole.
Harry Graf Kessler
#35. By the time writing was invented, the Greeks and Egyptians had already learned to extract opium from poppies to facilitate sleep.
Kat Duff
#36. All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
Jonathan Swift
#38. Or, bide thou where the poppy blows
With windflowers fail and fair.
William C. Bryant
#39. In general I strive for greatness and rational achievement, but I admit to you I've a terrible fondness for women, a tendency towards drunkenness, and a weakness for the fumes of the poppy - opium and other miserable beauties.
Roman Payne
#40. Opium: that terrible truth serum. Dark secrets guarded for a lifetime can be divulged with carefree folly after a sip of the black smoke.
Roman Payne
#41. Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of the poppy, it often gives a temporary relief.
Hope Mirrlees
#42. I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.
Jon Bon Jovi
#44. Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.
Edward Hopper
#45. But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
Thomas Browne
#46. There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
Noel Gallagher
#47. I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.
Marilyn Buck
#48. The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below
John McCrae
#49. And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
Bayard Taylor
#50. The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
David Swing
#51. I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.
Ty Segall
#52. They used to pour millet on graves or poppy seeds To feed the dead who would come disguised as birds. I put this book here for you, who once lived So that you should visit us no more.
Czeslaw Milosz
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