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Source: A Constance Spry Anthology

“April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It's raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy! A fig for him who frets!- It is not raining rain to me, It's raining violets.”

May Rooms Fields Flower Bed Rain Towns Rose Clouds Hills Gray Bees Violet April Figs Daffodil Clovers

Author:Robert Loveman

“That strain again! It had a dying fall: O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: 'Tis not so sweet as it was before.”

Love Giving Enough Fall Sound Dying Sweet Ears Breathe Stealing Strain Violet Twelfth Night Important

Author:William Shakespeare

“If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, 'It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.'”

Ifs Looks Littles Eye Kids Asks Sky Effects Blue Quantum Little Kid Violet Involving Photons

Author:Phil Plait

“Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.”

Poor Behinds Red Blue Rose Invisible Rhyme Violet Spectrum Wavelength Ultraviolet Roses Are Red Roses Are Red Violets Are Blue

Author:Derek Jarman

“My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded her presence; but a vast Sweet calm that comes not till the year has passed Its fevered solstice, and a tinge of gold Subdues the vivid colouring of bold And passion-hued emotions. I will cast My August days behind me with my May, Nor strive to drag them into Autumn's place, Nor swear I hope when I do but remember. Now violet and rose have had their day, I'll pluck the soberer asters with good grace And call September nothing but September.”

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Tokyo Heist is a fast-paced, exotic reading adventure, a story where The da Vinci Code meets the wildly popular manga genre! Author Diana Renn infuses protagonist Violet with plenty of chikara (power) and Renn's fresh, spot-on author's voice is irresistible. I couldn't put it down!”

Stories Reading Voice Adventure Spots Plenty Code Genre Violet Irresistible Fast Paced Exotic Protagonists Diana Tokyo Heist Da Vinci Code

Author:Alane Ferguson

“My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.”

Four Painting Blue Green Warm Primaries Plus Yellow Violet Palette

Author:Matt Smith

“Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm sick of this poem, you probably are too.”

Red Sick Blue Rose Violet Roses Are Red Roses Are Red Violets Are Blue

Book:The amazing days of Abby Hayes: volume one

Source: The amazing days of Abby Hayes: volume one

“Munch writes poetry with color. He has taught himself to see the full potential of color in art His use of color is above all lyrical. He feels color and he reveals his feelings through colors; he does not see them in isolation. He does not just see yellow, red and blue and violet; he sees sorrow and screaming and melancholy and decay.”

Feels Writing Doe Art Use Feelings Taught Color Sorrow Red Blue Isolation Melancholy Yellow Decay Violet Lyrical Full Potential Red And Blue

Author:Sigbjørn Obstfelder

“A gift of flowers to a woman implies that she is as deliciously desirable as the blossoms themselves; but there may be another and hidden message, contained in the old-fashioned phrases like 'shy as a violet, 'clinging vine,' not originally conceived as pejoratives, that tells more of the truth - which is that flowers are also emblems of feminine submission.”

May Truth Flower Messages Phrases Shy Feminine Desirable Old Fashioned Submission Violet Clinging Vines Emblems Hidden Messages

Author:Eleanor Perenyi

“A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.”

Bits Delight Smell Scent Violet Ripe Exotic Biting Pears Spicy

Book:Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

Source: Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel

“Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”

Light Eye Heaven Rich Gold Add Paint Ridiculous Ice Titles Excess Rainbow Smooth Perfume Violet Lilies Refined Hue

Author:William Shakespeare

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago.”

Years Heart Hours My Heart Eternal Spring Years Ago Twenties Rose Winter Breathe Violet Fragrance Lilac

Author:Victor Hugo

“The mountain violets break the rocks.”

Break Rocks Strength Mountain Violet

Author:Tennessee Williams

“The summer breeze was blowing on your face Within your violet you treasure your summery words And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden”

Faces Nature Summer Garden Treasure Necks Your Face Breeze Violet Spine Daylight Shiver Summer Breeze

Author:Van Morrison

“Roses are red, violets are blue, so are my balls thanks to you.”

Red Balls Blue Rose Thanks Violet Roses Are Red Roses Are Red Violets Are Blue

Author:Ralphie May

“I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.”

People Feels Like You Who You Are Violet Shrinking Disrespectful

Author:Keke Palmer

“The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what place has the Violet? the Flower de Luce? I cannot decide, but this I know - it is some blue flower.”

Knows Minutes Flower Spring Garden Blue Violet Grapes Spring Flowers Hyacinths

Book:Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth

Source: Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth

“Bonnie who had never hurt a - a harmless thing for malice. Bonnie who was like a kitten making airy pounces at no prey at all. Bonnie with her hair that was called something strawberry but that looked simply as if it was on fire. Bonnie of the translucent skin with the delicate violet fjords and estuaries of veins all over her throat and inner arms. Bonnie who had lately taken to looking at him sideways with her large childlike eyes big and brown under lashes like stars...”

Ifs Bigs Eye Stars Hurt Taken Fire Hair Arms Skins Brown Throat Delicate Veins Violet Prey Malice Kitten Childlike Lashes Strawberries Sideways Airy Estuaries Fjords

Book:Nightfall

Source: Nightfall

“At night... the streets become rhythmical perspectives of glowing dotted lines, reflections hung upon them in the streets as the wistaria hangs its violet racemes on its trellis. The buildings are shimmering verticality, a gossamer veil, a festive scene-prop hanging there against the black sky to dazzle, entertain, amaze.”

Night Black Lines Sky Streets New York Building Perspective Scene Reflection Hung Veils Violet Glowing Props Dazzle Festive

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.”

Source: Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer

“One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.”

Source: Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future

“Lo, the most excellent sun so calm and haughty, The violet and purple morn with just-felt breezes, The gentle soft-born measureless light, The miracle spreading bathing all, the fulfill'd noon, The coming eve delicious, the welcome night and the stars, Over my cities shining all, enveloping man and land.”

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867

“I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil.”

Nature Pieces Green Soil Yellow Delicate Violet

Book:Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

Source: Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889

“If you can do it, it ain't braggin'... it's a matter of self-confidence. I got where I did because I wasn't no shrinking violet.”

Ifs Self Matter Sports Can Do Self Confidence You Can Do It Violet Shrinking

Author:Dizzy Dean

“Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.”

Light Fall Dark Clear Dangerous Hot Calm Sensual Gentle Cinema Violet Poisonous Misty Cinematography Cameraman

Author:Sven Nykvist

“The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.”

Soul Grows Lows Humble Violet

Author:Fredrika Bremer

“If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest.”

Ifs Giving Sides Imagine Wind Red Blue Green Impression Yellow Orange Violet North Wind

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.”

Inspirational Mean Bigs Women Perspective Memorable Empowering Violet Sunflower

Book:Giant

Source: Giant

“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 a canal in grassy Eden: huge Pacific watery shore, Orlovsky dancing naked like Shiva long-haired before giant green waves, titanic cliffs that Wordsworth mentioned in his own Sublime, great yellow sun veiled with mist hanging over the planet's oceanic horizon. No harm.”

“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 from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree's branches.”

Way Art Certain Process Born Tree Style Invention Tendencies Artistic Branches Entity Unpredictable Violet Configuration

Author:Octavio Paz

“Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan, Sorrow calls no time that 's gone; Violets plucked, the sweetest rain Makes not fresh nor grow again.”

Grows Gone Sadness Tears Sorrow Rain Sigh Violet Sweetest

Book:The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions

Source: The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions

“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 swinging thing called courage.”

Looks May Mean Art Eye Film Legs Profession Violet Liz Tracy

Book:The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography

Source: The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography

“Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.”

Eye Night Flower Blue Clouds China Violet Haze Starry Night

Author:Don McLean

“Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins?”

Ends Nature Lines Draws Rainbow Orange Violet

Author:Herman Melville

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