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)

    “Lies grow dark around us: will
    The statue of your beauty walk?”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language into another the creations of a poet. The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower—and this is the burthen of the curse of Babel.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)