Poppy Opium Flowers Quotes & Sayings

She is mine, and I am hers. — Richelle Mead

By the road to the contagious hospital under the surge of the blue mottled clouds driven from the northeast - a cold wind. — William Carlos Williams

Final Disposition

Others divided closets full of mother's things.
From the earth, I took her poppies.
I wanted those fandango folds
of red and black chiffon she doted on,
loving the wild and Moorish music of them,
coating her tongue with the thin skin
of their crimson petals.

Snapping her fingers, flamenco dancer,
she'd mock the clack of castanets
in answer to their gypsy cadence.
She would crouch toward the flounce of flowers,
twirl, stamp her foot, then kick it out
as if to lift the ruffles, scarlet
along the hemline of her yard.

And so, I dug up, soil and all,
the thistle-toothed and gray-green clumps
of leaves, the testicle seedpods and hairy stems
both out of season, to transplant them in my less-exotic garden. There, they bloom
her blood's abandon, year after year,
roots holding, their poppy heads nodding
a carefree, opium-ecstatic, possibly forever sleep. — Jane Glazer

My favourite place in the world - the south beach at Aberystwyth -has a sewage outfall pipe on it — Caitlin Moran

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched. — Bryan Adams

all gods is one when it comes to thanks, so I've heard, and 'tis a good enough saying. — Stephen King

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done — John Maynard Keynes

Malcolm stood at the microphone. 'Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else's freedom.' His voice, deep and textured, reached through the crowd, across the street to the tenement windows where listeners leaned half their bodies out into the spring air. 'The black man has been programmed to die. To die either by his own hand, the hand of his brother or at the hand of a blue-eyed devil trained to do one thing: take the black man's life.' The — Maya Angelou

No, I do know that I was born
To age, misfortune, sickness, grief:
But I will bear these with that scorn
As shall not need thy false relief.
Nor for my peace will I go far,
As wanderers do, that still do roam;
But make my strengths, such as they are,
Here in my bosom, and at home. — Ben Jonson

It has always been correct to praise Plato, but not to understand him. — Bertrand Russell

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer. — Mother Teresa

We kind o' thought Christ went agin war an' pillage. — James Russell Lowell

I love having a croissant and a great cup of coffee. Just one cup. — Marcus Samuelsson