Dark Blue Base

Famous quotes containing the words dark blue, dark, blue and/or base:

    ... a full notecase,
    Dull Bodley, draught beer, and dark blue,
    And most often losing the Boat Race ...
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Deep with the first dead lies London’s daughter,
    Robed in the long friends,
    The grains beyond age, the dark veins of her mother,
    Secret by the unmourning water
    Of the riding Thames.
    After the first death, there is no other.
    Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    They said, “You have a blue guitar,
    You do not play things as they are.”
    The man replied, “Things as they are
    Are changed upon a blue guitar.”
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    The base emotions Plato banned
    have left a radio-active and not radiant land.
    Libby Houston (b. 1941)