Pink

Pink

Pink is any of the colors between reddish blue (purple) and red, of medium to high brightness and of low to moderate saturation. Commonly used for Valentine's Day and Easter, pink is sometimes referred to as "the color of love." The use of the word for the color "pink" was first recorded in the late 17th century.

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Famous quotes containing the word pink:

    “Among the pink and blue
    Of the sky and the almond flowers
    A sparrow flutters.
    MWe have come through.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “All night your moth-breath
    Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
    A far sea moves in my ear.”
    —Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

    “of the satanic thistle that raises its horned symmetry
    flowering above sister grass-daisies’ pink tiny
    bloomlets angelic as lightbulbs—”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)