"I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By……" — Vladimir Nabokov

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• More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot… — Cecil Beaton
• It was a morning when all nature shouted Fore! The breeze, as it blew gently up from the valley, seemed… — P.G. Wodehouse
• He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he… — Alfred the Great
• Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation,… — Thomas Carlyle
• The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond. — Henry David Thoreau
• Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. — George R. R. Martin
• When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set… — Joseph Rodman Drake
• Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The… — Georges Besancon
• When your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock… — John O'Donohue
• To exaggerate the fairness of hair, I come even to orange tones, chromes and pale yellow ... I make a… — Vincent Van Gogh
• The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans… — James Lovelock
• Go where he will, the wise man is at home, His hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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