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• The Italians are fond of red clothes, peacock plumes, and embroidery; and I remember one rainy morning in the city of Palermo, the street was ablaze with scarlet umbrellas.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Cities, Clothes

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• I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Personality, Opinion, Academic

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• Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63

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• Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Light, Golden

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.146

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

  Thomas Hood

  Corn, Poppies, Midst

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

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• With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread.

  Thomas Hood

  Inspirational, Rags, Heavy

  'The Song of the Shirt' (1843)

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• The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state -- this is a rainbow state.

  Jesse Jackson

  Character, Opportunity, Order

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• Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.

  John Dryden

  Flesh, Way, Steering

  John Dryden (1755). “The Duke of Guise. A tragedy. Acted by their Majesties Servants. Written by Mr. Dryden, and Mr. Lee”, p.267

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• Any number of holier-than-thou honorable realists walk around in the belief that they have accomplished something, simply because they tell you for the hundredth time that a field is green and a red-painted house is painted red.

  Edvard Munch

  Numbers, House, Green

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• Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight O'er the ramplarts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

  Francis Scott Key

  Stars, Twilight, Home

  "The Star-Spangled Banner" (song) st. 1 (1814)

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• O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Passion, Wine

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• The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Beauty, Eye, White

  'The Ladies of St James's' (1883)

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• After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.

  Anne Sexton

  Challenges, Energy, Needs

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• Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, War, Moon

  Philip James Bailey (1860). “Festus: A Poem”, p.466

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• Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over the dunes, a life in which you stop and watch how a red-tailed hawk circles over a pond and a stand of pines. Get a life in which you pay attention to the baby as she scowls with concentration when she tried to pick up a Cheerio with her thumb and first finger.

  Anna Quindlen

  Baby, Circles, Smell

  "A Short Guide to a Happy Life". Book by Anna Quindlen, 2000.

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• Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Black And White, Color, Green

  Vincent van Gogh, Colta Feller Ives (2005). “Vincent Van Gogh: The Drawings”, p.173, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Painting it was hard graft... in addition red, yellow, brown ochre, black, terra sienna, bistre, and the result is a red-brown that varies from bistre to deep wine-red and to pale, blond reddish.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Wine, Yellow, Black

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• I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Passion, Humanity, Green

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• It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue.

  Paul Gauguin

  Simple, Blue, Simplicity

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Girl, Song, Fall

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• All green was anished sae of pine and yew, That still displayed their melancholy hue; Sae the green holly with its berries red, And the green moss that o'er the grael spread.

  George Crabbe

  Hollies, Moss, Yew

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• When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.

  Dogen

  Jewels, Cake, Rocks

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• The 'pure' red of which certain abstractionists speak does not exist. Any red is rooted in blood, glass, wine, hunters' caps and a thousand other concrete phenomena. Otherwise we would have no feeling toward red and its relations.

  Robert Motherwell

  Wine, Glasses, Blood

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• Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.

  John Clare

  Dream, Reading, Winter

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Naked, Celebration

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