Color Dark Violet

Famous quotes containing the words color, dark and/or violet:

    “Rain falls into the open eyes of the dead
    Again again with its pointless sound
    When the moon finds them they are the color of everything”
    —William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)

    “the cold eternal shores
    That look sheer down
    To the dark tideless floods of Nothingness
    Where all who know may drown.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
    Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
    Quite overcanopied with luscious woodbine,
    With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine:
    There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,
    Lulled in these flowers with dances and delight.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)