Violet/people

Famous quotes containing the words violet and/or people:

“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)

“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)