Color Dark Violet

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

    “But whenever the roof came white
    The head in the dark below
    Was a shade less the color of night,
    A shade more the color of snow.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Who
    Are you
    Who is born
    In the next room
    So loud to my own
    That I can hear the womb
    Opening and the dark run...?”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “At twelve, the disintegration of afternoon
    Began, the return to phantomerei, if not
    To phantoms. Till then, it had been the other way:
    One imagined the violet trees but the trees stood green,
    At twelve, as green as ever they would be.
    The sky was blue beyond the vaultiest phrase.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)