Red

Red

Red is the color of blood, a ruby, and strawberries. It is next to orange at the end of the visible spectrum of light, and is commonly associated with danger, sacrifice, passion, fire, beauty, blood, anger, socialism and communism, and in China and many other cultures, with happiness.

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Famous quotes containing the word red:

    “She kisses her killed boy.
    And she is sorry.
    Chaos in windy grays
    through a red prairie.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “The dog-wood breaks white
    The pear-tree has caught
    The apple is a red blaze
    The peach has already withered its own leaves
    The wild plum-tree is alight.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.”
    —Anzia Yezierska (c. 1881–1970)