Purple Tongue

Famous quotes containing the words purple and/or tongue:

    “Now I am powerless
    to draw back
    for the sea is cyclamen-purple,
    cyclamen-red, colour of the last grapes,
    colour of the purple of the flowers,
    cyclamen-coloured and dark.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)