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What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger. — Johann Georg Hamann
I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy.… — Robert Loveman
Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils. — Michaela DePrince
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy. — Jonathan Swift
Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed. — Robert Burns
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,… — Mark Burnett
Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I… — Eddie Van Halen
Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot. — Jimmy Buffett
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're… — Peter York
Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn. — Thomas Hood
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… — Leigh Hunt
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France? — William Alexander Percy
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. — Bayard Taylor
Go along, go along quickly, and set all you have on the table for us. We don't want doughnuts, honey buns, poppy cakes, and other… — Nikolai Gogol
The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks. — John Keats
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted… — John Keats
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… — Annie Dillard
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,… — Tom Hiddleston
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… — Anne Lamott
Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in… — Walter Savage Landor
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place, and in the sky, The larks, still bravely singing,… — John McCrae
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… — Louise GluÌˆck
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… — John Steinbeck
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… — Jostein Gaarder
Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market. — Eric Hobsbawm

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