Color Purple

Famous quotes containing the words color and/or purple:

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)

“How clean the sun when seen in its idea,
Washed in the remotest cleanliness of a heaven
That has expelled us and our images . . .
The death of one god is the death of all.
Let purple Phoebus lie in umber harvest,
Let Phoebus slumber and die in autumn umber....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)