Color Dark Violet

Famous quotes containing the words color, dark and/or violet:

    “But whenever the roof came white
    The head in the dark below
    Was a shade less the color of night,
    A shade more the color of snow.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “My beautiful, my beautiful! That standest meekly by,
    With thy proudly-arched and glossy neck, and dark and fiery eye!”
    —Caroline Sheridan Norton (1808–1877)

    “At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)