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)

    “This side of the truth,
    You may not see, my son,
    King of your blue eyes
    In the blinding country of youth,
    That all is undone,
    Under the unminding skies....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “There, on the mountain and the sky,
    On all the tragic scene they stare.
    One asks for mournful melodies;
    Accomplished fingers begin to play.
    Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes,
    Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)