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)

    “When have I last looked on
    The round green eyes and the long wavering bodies
    Of the dark leopards of the moon?
    All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,
    For all their broom-sticks and their tears,
    Their angry tears, are gone.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “At the violet hour, the evening hour that strives
    Homeward, and brings the sailor home from sea,
    The typist home at teatime, clears her breakfast, lights
    Her stove, and lays out food in tins.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)