Writing Quote by Carol Shields

“The child, laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet understands far more in the deepest terms than a botanist…

— The child laughing with joy and awe at the sight of the first violet understands far more in the dee

“it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Going up, Herzong found a bouquet of violets, dropped from the hand of a woman. Perhaps a bride. Little perfume remained in them, but…

— Saul Bellow

“We must admit that he had eyes like drenched violets, so large that the water seemed to have brimmed in them and widened them;…

— Virginia Woolf

“The Origin of Violets I know, blue modest violets, Gleaming with dew at morn- I know the place you come from And the way…

— Anonymous

We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The layers of his gleaming black hair were thick and neatly cut, and his tanned face glowed from a precise shave. He had a…

— Lisa Kleypas

“Let a thing be but a sort of punctual surprise, like the first cache of violets in March, let it be delicate, painted and…

— Hope Mirrlees

“There was something about his eyes—the color of the periwinkle that grew at the base of the trees in the Meadow, such a deep…

— Melanie Benjamin

“When I came to you out of all that dust and heat and toil, I positively smelt violets at once. But not the sweet…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Hence the vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“...Violet followed her friend into the massive kitchen with its Restoration Hardware fixture and faux-weathered, farmhouse-style cabinets. Its perplexed Violet, the way people tried…

— Susan Gloss