Purple Rose

Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or rose:

    Now I am powerless
    to draw back
    for the sea is cyclamen-purple,
    cyclamen-red, colour of the last grapes,
    colour of the purple of the flowers,
    cyclamen-coloured and dark.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    air or vacuum, snow or shale, squid or wolf, rose or lichen,
    each is accepted into as much light as it will take,
    Archie Randolph Ammons (b. 1926)