Famous quotes containing the words red, blood and/or cells:
“The sable presbyters approach
The avenue of penitence;
The young are red and pustular
Clutching piaculative pence.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“Her skin was white as leprosy,
The nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
Who thicks mans blood with cold.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
“They are sworn enemies of lyric poetry.
In prison they accompany the jailer,
Enter cells to hear confessions.
Their short-end comes down
When you least expect it.”
—Charles Simic (b. 1938)