quotations about blood
Besides, another motive power doth rise
Out of the heart, from whose pure blood do spring
The vital spirits, which, borne in arteries,
Continual motion to all parts do bring.
JOHN DAVIES
A Poem on the Immortality of the Soul
Blood was flowing--in Bluebeard's house, in the abattoirs, in the circuses where God had set his seal to whiten the windows. Blood and Milk flowed together.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
Collected Poems
There's no other safety, there's no other plea,
There's no other refuge whereunto to flee;
The blood, and that only, can safety insure:
The blood, and that only, can cleanse and make pure.
A.E.R.
Thoughts of Peace and Other Poems
In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
ABERJHANI
The River of Winged Dreams
Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams,
fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs
and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.
PABLO NERUDA
The Month of March Returns with its Hidden Light
I'm a vampire, baby, suckin' blood from the earth. Well, I'm a vampire, babe, sell you twenty barrels worth. Good times are comin'.
NEIL YOUNG
"Vampire Blues"
The patriot's blood is the seed of Freedom's tree.
THOMAS CAMPBELL
The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
But be sure you do not eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
BIBLE
Deuteronomy 12:23
For naturally blood will aye of kind
Draw unto blood, where he may it find.
JOHN LYDGATE
Troy
The first records of our young world were those of tears and blood; its last records will be those of tears and blood also.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Romance and Reality
What cost knows not our blood?
HORACE
Odes
But when the dust has drunk the blood of men, no resurrection comes for one who's dead.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides
Human blood is all of a color.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
BIBLE
Psalms 58:10
You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you.
DANTE ALIGHIERI
Inferno
Bloodshed is a cleansing and sanctifying thing, and the nation that regards it as the final horror has lost its manhood.
PATRICK PEARSE
"The Coming Revolution", 1913
No distance breaks the tie of blood;
Brothers are brothers evermore.
JOHN KEBLE
The Christian Year: Second Sunday After Trinity
The blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Henry IV, Part I
Why should he live now Nature bankrupt is,
Beggar'd of blood to blush through lively veins?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnet LXVII
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
DIANA PETERFREUND
Rampant