Azure

Famous quotes containing the word azure:

“Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow;
Such as creation’s dawn beheld, thou rollest now.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluff—and I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“The purity men love is like the mists which envelop the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)