Opium Poppy Cultivation

Famous quotes containing the words opium, poppy and/or cultivation:

    “The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon’s gin; out of any businessman’s life there is the mirage of Paris; out of Paris, or mediocrity of talent and imagination, there are all the drugs, from subtle, all-conquering opium to cheating, cozening cocaine.”
    —William Bolitho (1890–1930)

    “The young woman-smell
    Of your poppy body
    Rises to my brain as opium”
    —Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)

    “The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms.”
    —Marquês De Pombal (1699–1782)