White

White

White is the color of pure snow or milk. It is the color of light that contains all of the wavelengths of the visible spectrum without absorption. It is the opposite of black.

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Famous quotes containing the word white:

    “To muse and brood and live again in memory,
    With those old faces of our infancy
    Heaped over with a mound of grass,
    Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass!”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Only the white, tremendous foam of the street has any importance,
    The new white flowers that are beginning to shoot up about now.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “As if that hand
    squeezing crow’s blood
    against a white sky
    beside an idiot’s laughing face
    were real.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)