Opium Poppy Cultivation

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

    “And I said,
    “This holy concern for the truth—
    no one worries about it except liars.”
    And God was bored.
    He turned on his side
    like an opium eater
    and slept.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

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

    “Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.”
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)