Azure Quote by Ebenezer Elliott

The tender violet bent in smiles To elves that sported nigh, Tossing the drops of fragrant dew To scent the evening sky.

— Elizabeth Oakes Smith

“The multicolored leaves were softly glowing against the black sky, creating an untimely nocturnal rainbow which scattered its spectral tints everywhere and dyed the…

— Thomas Ligotti

That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.

— Francis Bacon

The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of…

— Christina Rossetti

“Violet’s last visit—not two months ago, at the beginning of the summer—Violet seemed …”

— Jessica Strawser

“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

Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on…

— John Keats

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

— James Russell Lowell

I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath you feet In wistful April days.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew.

— Edmund Spenser

It was one of those sumptuous days when the world is full of autumn muskiness and tangy, crisp perfection: vivid blue sky, deep green…

— Bill Bryson

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson