Color Dark Violet

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

    “To face the garment of rebellion
    With some fine color that may please the eye
    Of fickle changelings and poor discontents.
    Which gape and rub the elbow at the news
    Of hurly-burly innovation.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,
    And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “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)