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)

    “This, it will be remembered, was the scene of Mrs. Rowlandson’s capture, and of other events in the Indian wars, but from this July afternoon, and under that mild exterior, those times seemed as remote as the irruption of the Goths. They were the dark age of New England.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “A violet in the youth of primy nature,
    Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)