Dark Blue Mountain

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

    “ethereal, their mauve
    almost a transparent gray,
    their dark veins
    bruise-blue.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean,—roll!
    Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
    Man marks the earth with ruin,—his control
    Stops with the shore;”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

    “The Xanthus or Scamander is not a mere dry channel and bed of a mountain torrent, but fed by the ever-flowing springs of fame ... and I trust that I may be allowed to associate our muddy but much abused Concord River with the most famous in history.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)