Azure

Famous quotes containing the word azure:

“All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow;
Such as creation’s dawn beheld, thou rollest now.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“Underneath Day’s azure eyes,
Ocean’s nursling, Venice lies,—
A peopled labyrinth of walls,
Amphitrite’s destined halls,”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)