Dark Blue Mountain

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

    “Spite of all the Indian-summer sunlight on the hither side of Hawthorne’s soul, the other side—like the dark half of the physical sphere—is shrouded in a blackness, ten times black.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “It was beginning winter,
    An in-between time,
    The landscape still partly brown:
    The bones of weeds kept swinging in the wind,
    Above the blue snow.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    “The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”
    —Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)