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“Of all the wonderful things in the wonderful universe of God, nothing seems to me more surprising than the planting of a seed in the blank earth and the result thereof. Take that Poppy seed, for instance: it lies in your palm, the merest atom of matter, hardly visible, a speck, a pin's point in bulk, but within it is imprisoned a spirit of beauty ineffable, which will break its bonds and emerge from the dark ground and blossom in a splendor so dazzling as to baffle all powers of description.”

Source: An Island Garden

“When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.”

Inspiration Happens Walks Plant Seeds Weed Rainbow Patches Rockets Poppies Wasteland

Book:How to be Free

Source: How to be Free

“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 boggle no one's mind.”

Men Mind Fields Mets Forests Grass Blades Identical Acres Poppies Blades Of Grass

Book:PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

Source: PILGRIM AT TINKER CREEK

“Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms, can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke. Why swell'st thou then?”

Men Wells Art War Chance Sleep Fate Kings Slave Poison Charm Desperate Sickness Strokes Poppies

Book:The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of John Donne: With a Memoir of His Life

“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.”

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

Soul Dancing My Soul Breeze Poppies

Book:Endymion: A Poetic Romance

Source: Endymion: A Poetic Romance

“I always design my own hats to complete my fashion thought....I like them slightly mad, like this huge black poppy. Right now I lift the bosom high on coats and dresses...I am using so many high curved belts.”

Black My Own Fashion Design Huge Right Now Dresses Mad Lifts Hats Coats Belts Bosoms Poppies

Author:Oscar de la Renta

“Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow.”

Source: Change We Can Believe In

“Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there. I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one.”

Earth Left Flower Summer Picks Hundred Lips Print Bosoms Poppies

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“What Tarquin the Proud said in his garden with the poppy blooms was understood by the son but not by the messenger.”

Said Son Proud Understood Garden Messengers Poppies

Author: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. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west; Soft o'er the poppy-fields of sleep, The drowsy winds of dreamland creep. What idle things are wealth and fame Beside the treasures one could name!”

“The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.”

Literature Sermons Poppies

Author:David Swing

“Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.”

Differences Fields Flower Metaphor Ballerina Poppies Daffodil

Author:Michaela DePrince

“All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.”

Praise Poppies Infusion

Book:The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author

Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: Carefully Selected; with a Biography of the Author

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

Pleasure Flow Spread Shed Poppies Pleasures Of Life Snow Falling Pleasure And Happiness

Author: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, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class.”

People Want Social Class Cutting Succeed Europe Australia Tall Syndromes Social Class Poppies

Author: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 play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.”

Ifs Way Writing Sometimes Play Would Be Song Down And Pops If I Could Poppies

Author: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.”

Ifs Thinking Said Religion Found Religious Cold Hot Pot Diapers Poppies

Author:Jimmy Buffett

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