Poppies Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Dream, Sleep, Serious

  Leigh Hunt (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt (Illustrated)”, p.329, Delphi Classics

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• Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don’t. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels—the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers.

  Mark Slouka

  Angel, Fate, Doors

  Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company

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• And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

  William Alexander Percy

  Fall, Romance, Proud

  William Alexander Percy (2013). “Collected Poems”, p.171, Knopf

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• 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

  Flower, Garden, Sake

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

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• All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Praise, Infusion

  Jonathan Swift, David Laing Purves (1871). “The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author”, p.520

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• Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Red, Corn, Midst

  Thomas Hood (1860). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood”, p.148

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• Religion is the opiate of the people.

  Karl Marx

  Religious, People, Religion

  "Marx is dead: don't resuscitate him" by Linsey McGoey, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2008.

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• I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'

  Tom Hiddleston

  Teacher, Children, War

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• There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tir'd eyelids upon tir'd eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro' the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Wall, Lying

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1028, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Cutting, Europe, Class

  "Mark Burnett Started His Career Jumping Out Of Airplanes And Transporting Prisoners On Ships" by Stephen Chao, www.businessinsider.com. April 21, 2011.

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• Central depth of purple, Leaves more bright than rose, Who shall tell what brightest thought Out of darkness grows? Who, through what funereal pain, Souls to love and peace attain? - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt

  Leigh Hunt

  Pain, Purple, Rose

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• 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

  Orange, Color, Gold

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.10, Penguin

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• Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Religious, Thinking, Religion

  Song: Overkill, Album: Banana Wind

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• I believe there is something of the divine mystery in everything that exists. We can see it sparkle in a sunflower or a poppy. We sense more of the unfathomable mystery in a butterfly that flutters from a twig--or in a goldfish swimming in a bowl. But we are closest to God in our own soul. Only there can we become one with the greatest mystery of life. In truth, at very rare moments we can experience that we ourselves are that divine mystery.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Believe, Butterfly, Swimming

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• The larks, still bravely singing, fly
  Scarce heard amid the guns below

  John McCrae

  Gun, Singing, Larks

  'In Flanders Fields' (1915)

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• 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

  Writing, Rocks, Tunes

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• The Red Poppy The great thing is not having a mind. Feelings: oh, I have those; they govern me. I have a lord in heaven called the sun, and open for him, showing him the fire of my own heart, fire like his presence. What could such glory be if not a heart? Oh my brothers and sisters, were you like me once, long ago, before you were human? Did you permit yourselves to open once, who would never open again? Because in truth I am speaking now the way you do. I speak because I am shattered.

  Louise Glück

  Brother, Heart, Fire

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• A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the world. Away in the valley yonder among the corn and the poppies men may well forget all things except the warmth of the sun upon the face, and the kind shadow under the hedge; but he who journeys through storm and darkness must needs think and think.

  William Butler Yeats

  Journey, Men, Thinking

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.85, Library of Alexandria

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• When the clouds shake their hyssops, and the rain
  Like holy water falls upon the plain,
  'Tis sweet to gaze upon the springing grain
  And see your harvest born.
  And sweet the little breeze of melody
  The blackbord puffs upon the budding tree,
  While the wild poppy lights upon the lea
  And blazes 'mid the corn.

  Francis Ledwidge

  Sweet, Spring, Rain

  Francis Ledwidge (1997). “The complete poems”, The Goldsmith Press Ltd

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• Now know I well what people sought formerly above all else when they sought Teachers of virtue. Good sleep they sought for themselves, and poppy-head virtues to promote it! To all those be-lauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep Without dreams: they knew no higher significance of life. Even at present, to be sure, there are some like this preacher of virtue, and not always so honorable: but their time is past. And not much longer do they stand: there they already lie. Blessed are those drowsy ones: for they shall soon nod to sleep.-Thus spoke Zarathustra.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dream, Teacher, Lying

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• Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.

  John Keats

  Writing, Kissing, Letters

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.245, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Dubai, Years, Two

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• The earth is rocky and full of roots; it's clay, and it seems doomed and polluted, but you dig little holes for the ugly shriveled bulbs, throw in a handful of poppy seeds, and cover it all over, and you know you'll never see it again - it's death and clay and shrivel, and your hands are nicked from the rocks, your nails black with soil.

  Anne Lamott

  Rocks, Hands, Roots

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• 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

  Giving, Drug, Relief

  Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.53, F+W Media, Inc.

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• his thumbs ran over my cheeks. Our foreheads touched. My dreamscape scorched. He set fire to the poppies

  Samantha Shannon

  Fire, Thumbs, Foreheads

  Samantha Shannon (2013). “The Bone Season”, p.421, A&C Black

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