Purple Heart Memorial

Famous quotes containing the words purple, heart and/or memorial:

    “Ah splendour, my goddess turns:
    or was it the sudden heat,
    beneath quivering of molten flesh,
    of veins, purple as violets?”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “No one knows,
    the heart of a child,
    how it grows
    until it is too late.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “When I received this [coronation] ring I solemnly bound myself in marriage to the realm; and it will be quite sufficient for the memorial of my name and for my glory, if, when I die, an inscription be engraved on a marble tomb, saying, “Here lieth Elizabeth, which reigned a virgin, and died a virgin.””
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)