Poppies Quotes

• John Mccrae / Lieutenant Colonel

In Flanders fields the poppies blow.

• John Keats / Poet

The poppies hung Dew-dabbled on their stalks.

• David Swing

The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.

• Kobayashi Issa / Poet

Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel.

• Jonathan Swift / Pamphleteer

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

• John Bunyan / Writer

But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower

• Bayard Taylor / Poet

And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.

• William C. Bryant / Poet

Or, bide thou where the poppy blows With windflowers fail and fair.

• Jennifer Egan / Novelist

Kissing Mother Superior, incompetent, hairball, poppy seeds, on the can.

• Robert Burns / Poet

Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.

• Thomas Hood / Poet

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

• Marilyn Buck / Poet

I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.

• Jon Bon Jovi / Musician

I'm not a big disco guy. Some of that English techno-poppy stuff wouldn't get me in the mood either.

• Samantha Shannon / Writer

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

• Edward Hopper / Painter

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.

• Travis Barker / Musician

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.

• Hope Mirrlees / Poet

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.

• Ty Segall / Musician

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.

• Grimes / Musician

I think you can hear, when you listen to someone's music, whether or not they're enjoying making it - it's so great to hear music where you can tell the person making it was just having a blast. That's really important to me as far as my process goes. That's probably why my music ends up being so poppy!

• John Mccrae / Lieutenant Colonel

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

• John Keats / Poet

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.