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• The violets prattle and titter, And gaze on the stars high above.

  Heinrich Heine

  Stars

  Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.68

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• Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

  Pablo Neruda

  Passion, Soul, Sorrow

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• The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don't always know if it is green or violet, you can't even say it's blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Taken, Mean

  Vincent van Gogh (1963). “Letters”, Atheneum Books for Young Readers

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• The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made: Men scent our fragrance on the air, Yet take no heed Of humble lessons we would read.

  Christina Rossetti

  Humble, Men, Air

  Christina Rossetti (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)”, p.26, Delphi Classics

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• I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

  Djuna Barnes

  Humble, Wind, Cows

  1936 Doctor. Night wood, ch.5.

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• Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.

  Henry James

  Wine, Florence, Seems

  Henry James, Leon Edel (1987). “Henry James, Selected Letters”, p.51, Harvard University Press

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• Violets are God's apology for February.

  Barbara Johnson

  Apology, February

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.22, Zondervan

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• When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street the houses had grown sombre. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns. The cold air stung us and we played till our bodies glowed. Our shouts echoed in the silent street.

  James Joyce

  Winter, Air, Sky

  James Joyce (2014). “The Dead and Other Stories: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition”, p.27, Broadview Press

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• We are violets blue, For our sweetness found Careless in the mossy shades, Looking on the ground. Love's dropp'd eyelids and a kiss,-- Such our breath and blueness is.

  Leigh Hunt

  Kissing, Blue, Shade

  Leigh Hunt (1860). “The poetical works of Leigh Hunt”, p.290

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• 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.

  Frank Capra

  Art, Mean, Eye

  Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”

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• And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

  John Keats

  Moss, May, Shade

  John Keats, Helen Vendler (1990). “Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Early violets blue and white Dying for their love of light.

  Edwin Arnold

  Light, Blue, White

  Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235

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• Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

  Matsuo Basho

  Jewels, Sky, Mountain

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• I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, sc. 1, l. [106]

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• When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Time, Spring, Light

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• The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

  Tennessee Williams

  Time, Nature, Flower

  Tennessee Williams (2008). “Camino Real”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Humorous, Flower

  "Fictional character: Jerry Sunborne". "Things We Lost in the Fire", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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

  Edna Ferber

  Inspirational, Women, Memorable

  Edna Ferber (1952). “Giant”

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• We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us - and if we do not agree, seems to put its hand in its breeches pocket. Poetry should be great & unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. - How beautiful are the retired flowers! how would they lose their beauty were they to throng into the highway crying out, "admire me I am a violet! dote upon me I am a primrose!"

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Hate, Flower

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.58, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Sweet, Fall

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Queens, Spring

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 5, sc. 1, l. [265]

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• When April steps aside for May,
  Like diamonds all the rain-drops glisten;
  Fresh violets open every day:
  To some new bird each hour we listen.

  Lucy Larcom

  Rain, Bird, May

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

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Nature, Yellow, Pieces

  Vincent van Gogh (1929). “Further Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1886-1889”

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• Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale.

  John Milton

  Echoes, Nymphs, Unseen

  'Comus' (1637) l. 230

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• At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives.

  T. S. Eliot

  Life, Eye, Two

  'The Waste Land' (1922) pt. 3

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