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• Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.

  Ebenezer Elliott

  Golden, Azure, Sun

  Ebenezer Elliott (1834). “Elliott's Poems: The village patriarch, Love, and other poems”, p.284

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• Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Love, Flower, Ideas

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• 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.

  Walt Whitman

  Stars, Night, Men

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• With all its excesses, the modern impressionistic movement has given us one discovery, the color violet. It is the only discovery of importance in the art world since Velazquez.

  Joaquin Sorolla

  Art, Discovery, Color

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• At first we raced through space, like shadows and light; her rants, my raves; her dark hair, my blonde; black dresses, white. She's a purple-black African-violet-dark butterfly and I a white moth. We were two wild ponies, Dawn and Midnight, the wind electrifying our manes and our hooves quaking the city; we were photo negatives of each other, together making the perfect image of a girl.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Girl, Butterfly, Dark

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• The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Flower, Sun

  William Shakespeare, Brian Gibbons (1991). “Measure for Measure”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• I went about the job in a direct way. I took the hatchet in both my hands and vigorously beat the fish on the head with the hammerhead (I still didn’t have the stomach to use the sharp edge). The dorado did the most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Blue, green, red, gold, and violet flickered and shimmered neon-like on its surface as it struggled. I felt I was beating a rainbow to death.

  Yann Martel

  Jobs, Blue, Hands

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Blue, Wind, Wings

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• I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Dream, Flower

  1595 Oberon. A Midsummer Night's Dream, act 2, sc.1, l.249-52.

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• Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odours, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. Rose leaves, when the rose is dead, Are heap'd for the belovèd's bed; And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone, Love itself shall slumber on.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Sweet, Art

  'To-: Music when soft voices die' (published 1824).

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• I stepped closer still. He closed his eyes again and covered my hand with his own. 'You smell of violets. You always smell of violets,' he said. 'You've no idea how many times I have walked these moors and smelled them and thought you were near. On and on I walked, following the scent of you, and you were never there. When I saw you in the hall tonight, I thought I had finally gone mad.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Eye, Hands, Ideas

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.37, MIRA

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• I've got it all in here ultra violets, flying saucers, strawberry bootlace come on get involved.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Flying

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• 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.'

  Phil Plait

  Kids, Eye, Blue

  "Bad Astronomy". Book by Phil Plait, 2002.

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• What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

  Theodore Parker

  Summer, Book, Joy

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.168

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• Mother,” Hyacinth said with a great show of solicitude, “you know I love you dearly—” “Why is it,” Violet pondered, “that I have come to expect nothing good when I hear a sentence beginning in that manner?

  Julia Quinn

  Mother, Love You, Hyacinths

  Julia Quinn (2005). “It's in his kiss”

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• Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

  William Maxwell

  Odor, Velvet, His Love

  William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Early novels and stories”

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• Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high-strung. Foods of the violet vibration are: purple broccoli, beetroot and purple grapes.

  Tae Yun Kim

  Healing, Color, Purple

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• Violet will be a good color for hair at just about the same time that brunette becomes a good color for flowers.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Inspirational, Teenage, Flower

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.328, Vintage

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• I'm confident that I'm as intelligent as many people, but I know that I'm not as intelligent as some. So in the presence of hyperintelligent people, I'm a shrinking violet because I don't want to look like a fool. I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little.

  Bette Midler

  Intelligent, People, Shrinking

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• You violets that first appear, By your pure purple mantles known, Like the proud virgins of the year, As if the spring were all your own — What are you when the rose is blown?

  Henry Wotton

  Spring, Years, Purple

  Sir Henry Wotton, John HANNAH (Archdeacon of Lewes.) (1857). “Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Edited by the Rev. John Hannah”, p.14

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• The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the mountain-top waves its sombre boughs and cries, 'Thou art my sun.' And the little meadow violet lifts its cup of blue, and whispers with its perfumed breath, 'Thou art my sun.' And the grain in a thousand fields rustles in the wind, and makes answer, 'Thou art my sun.' So God sits effulgent in heaven, not for a favored few, but for the universe of life; and there is no creature so poor or so low that he may not look up with childish confidence and say, 'My Father, Thou art mine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  God, Lonely, Art

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• For a moment he could have sworn he smelled violets, which was very peculiar, since he had no idea what violets smelled like, except somehow he knew they smelled just like Lady Emma.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Ideas, Peculiar, Moments

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

  Don McLean

  Flower, Eye, Night

  Song: Vincent

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• It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven't, you cannot possibly imagine it.

  Daniel Handler

  Death, Grief, Loss

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• The aquilegia sprinkled on the rocks
  A scarlet rain; the yellow violet
  Sat in the chariot of its leaves, the phlox
  Held spikes of purple flame in meadows wet,
  And all the streams with vernal-scented reed
  Were fringed, and streaky bellow of miskodeed.

  Bayard Taylor

  Rain, Rocks, Flames

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