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 (18171862)
“Time writes no wrinkles on thine azure brow;
Such as creations dawn beheld, thou rollest now.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain
By the false azure in the windowpane;
I was the smudge of ashen fluffand I
Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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