Black Quote by Joan Walsh Anglund

A tiny radish of passionate scarlet, tipped modestly in white.

— Clementine Paddleford

If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?

— Rumi

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

— Nathalia Crane

“The young man, perched insecurely in the slen­der branches, rocked till he felt slightly drunk, reached down the boughs, where the scarlet beady cherries…

— DH Lawrence

“There’s a simple kind of beauty in the eyes of someone who is truly terrified. It’s the gleam that shimmers in their depths as…

— Ella Frank

“A writer, who was a celebrity in Paris, had entered her shop one day. He was not looking for a hat. He asked if…

— Anaïs Nin

“...as the hooded figure spun, his cloak swirling around him. My stomach lurched as our gazes met. Cold ice-blue eyes stabbed at me from…

— Julie Kagawa

I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is.

— Dwight L. Moody

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

— John Dryden

“A slender form wrapped in a dark cloak that billowed behind her—very much like another apparition, the impression enhanced by their eerie surroundings.”

— Christina Boyd

“I sought a soul that might resemble mine, and I could not find it. I scanned all the crannies of the earth: my perseverance…

— Comte de Lautréamont