Color Dark Violet

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

    “The pills are a mother, but better,
    every color and as good as sour balls.
    I’m on a diet from death.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “This seems a long while ago, and yet it happened since Milton wrote his Paradise Lost. But its antiquity is not the less great for that, for we do not regulate our historical time by the English standard, nor did the English by the Roman, nor the Roman by the Greek.... From this September afternoon, and from between these now cultivated shores, those times seemed more remote than the dark ages.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “At the violet hour, when the eyes and back
    Turn upward from the desk when the human engine waits
    Like a taxi throbbing waiting,”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)