Red Crystal

Famous quotes containing the words red and/or crystal:

    O land and soil, red soil and sweet-gum tree,
    So scant of grass, so profligate of pines,
    Jean Toomer (1894–1967)

    I waited alone, in the company of orchids, roses and violets who—like people waiting beside you, but to whom you are unknown—maintained a silence which their individuality of living things rendered more imposing and in their chilly manner received the heat from an incandescent coal fire, preciously placed behind a crystal glass, in a white marble tub where it dropped, from time to time, its dangerous rubies.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)