Blue Phases

Famous quotes containing the words blue and/or phases:

    They said, “You have a blue guitar,
    You do not play things as they are.”
    The man replied, “Things as they are
    Are changed upon a blue guitar.”
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    That man is to be pitied who cannot enjoy social intercourse without eating and drinking. The lowest orders, it is true, cannot imagine a cheerful assembly without the attractions of the table, and this reflection alone should induce all who aim at intellectual culture to endeavor to avoid placing the choicest phases of social life on such a basis.
    Mrs. H. O. Ward (1824–1899)