Babel Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“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

“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

“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

“Red Red is the wine, red are the carnations. Red is beautiful. Red flowers and red. Color itself is beautiful. The red color is…

— Herbeck

A poet sees a flower and can go on and on about how beautiful the colors are. But what the poet doesn't see is…

— George M. Church

“ The Lilly in a Christal You have beheld a smiling Rose When Virgins hands have drawn O’r it a Cobweb-Lawne: And here, you…

— Robert Herrick

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

— Osbert Sitwell

Colour is the ultimate in art. It is still and will always remain a mystery to us, we can only apprehend it intuitively in…

— Philipp Otto Runge

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

A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more.

— William Shakespeare

“I presented him with an African violet, which I saw as symbolically useful, though I’m not sure the others understood the subtleties. (African violets…

— Carol Shields

“the brilliance of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not lessen the perfume of the violet or the sweet simplicity of…

— Thérèse de Lisieux