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“All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...”

Source: I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems

“It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.”

War Pay Enemy Blood Gold Tribute

Book:Jeremiah: A Drama in Nine Scenes

Source: Jeremiah: A Drama in Nine Scenes

“Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.”

Men Black White Pay Race Blood Dog Gold

Book:Conan the Barbarian

Source: Conan the Barbarian

“What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.”

Way Shows Blood Economic Pride Gains Advantage Gold Greed Patriotism Territory Shedding Blood False Pride

Book:The Hounds of Spring

Source: The Hounds of Spring

“At that time the archiepiscopal throne of Alexandria was filled by Theophilus, the perpetual enemy of peace and virtue; a bold, bad man, whose hands were alternately polluted with gold and with blood.”

Men Hands Enemy History Virtue Blood Gold Filled Perpetual Thrones Roman Empire Bad Man Alexandria

Book:History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

Source: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V3: the History Focus

“It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.”

Hands Earth Given Blood Advantage All Things Gold Instruments Remarkable Silver Iron Providence Slaughter Gold And Silver Bowels

Author:Seneca the Younger

“When I was like 12 or 13,Muhammad Ali gave me a pair of his trunks that were white satin with gold stripes. They were full of blood, and my mother threw them away. I think it's the first time I ever cursed at my mother.”

Thinking Firsts Mother White Blood First Time Gold Pairs Muhammad Cursed Trunks Stripes Satin

Author:Mickey Rourke

“The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power.”

Ifs Mind Stills Light Able Turns Heaven Water Powerful Magic Blood Rocks Red Gold Blue Green Heavy Invention Grass Faculty Yellow Grey Adjectives Heavy Things

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“I always see colors when I listen to music. It's difficult to explain, but when I hear the music I think about gold, blood rushing.”

Thinking Difficult Blood Color Gold Listening To Music Rushing

Author:Charli XCX

“Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.”

Men Looks Death White Blood Cold Red Gold Skins Lips Nightmare Yellow Locks Leprosy

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood.”

Giving Hands Light Form Blood Poet Approach Models Angel Gold Shed Muse Leafs Folds Laurels Recess

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca