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Quotations About / On: PINK
 

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  What is pink? A rose is pink
By the fountain's brink.

 
(Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894), British poet. What Is Pink? (Sing-Song) (l. 1-2). . . The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 2. R. W. Crump, ed. (1986) Louisiana State University Ι Press.)
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  I am the very pink of courtesy.
 
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Mercutio, in Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 4, l. 57. "Pink" means embodiment or perfection.)
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  What a lay me down this is
with two pink, two orange,
two green, two white goodnights.

 
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Addict.")
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  In the pink light
the small red sun goes rolling, rolling,
round and round and round at the same height
in perpetual sunset,

 
(Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet. Large Bad Picture (l. 25-28). . . The Complete Poems, 1927-1979 [Elizabeth Bishop]. (1983) Farrar, Straus and Giroux.)
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  Even in the pink crib
the somehow deficient,
the somehow maimed,
are thought to have
a special pipeline to the mystical....

 
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes.")
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  Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form.

 
(W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. The Fall of Rome (l. 17-20). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.)
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  Moving, you roll down the garment,
down that pink snapper and hoarder,
as your belly, soft as pudding,
slops into the empty space....

 
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "Woman with Girdle.")
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  I
Am a pure acetylene
Virgin
Attended by roses,
By kisses, by cherubim,
By whatever these pink things mean.

 
(Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Fever 103 (l. 45-50). . . The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.)
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