Violet Quotes

189 quotes by 136 authors

No monster vibration, no snake universe hallucinations. Many tiny jeweled violet flowers along the path of a living brook that looked like Blake's illustration for… — Allen Ginsberg
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed… — Octavio Paz
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that… — Frank Capra
Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue. — Don McLean
Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? — Herman Melville
The smell of violets, hidden in the green, Pour'd back into my empty soul and frame The times when I remembered to have been Joyful… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble… — Christina Rossetti
The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have to penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet. — James Russell Lowell
Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years? — James Russell Lowell
I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me. — William Shakespeare
Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our… — Leigh Hunt
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. — John Milton
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets sprang. — Heinrich Heine
Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above. — Heinrich Heine
The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above. — Heinrich Heine
The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound. — Heinrich Heine
And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets. — John Keats

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