“To eat the lotus of the Nile
And drink the poppies of Cathay.”
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery
The Tent on the Beach, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.”
— Virginia Woolf, book The Waves
Source: The Waves
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