Famous quotes containing the words red, blood and/or cells:
“The complaint ... about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernes, while adequate and amusing in themselves, tend to make the people who use them look dated. It is an honest criticism. The human race has done nothing much about changing its own appearance to conform to the form and texture of its appurtenances.”
—E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)
“What is this flesh I purchased with my pains,
This fallen star my milk sustains,
This love that makes my hearts blood stop
Or strikes a sudden chill into my bones
And bids my hair stand up?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“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)