Dark Blue Mountain

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

    “the cold eternal shores
    That look sheer down
    To the dark tideless floods of Nothingness
    Where all who know may drown.”
    —Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869–1935)

    “True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of variety ... is but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety....”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “The mountain sheep are sweeter,
    But the valley sheep are fatter;
    We therefore deemed it meeter
    To carry off the latter.”
    —Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)