"There's smoke in my iris, but I painted a sunny day on the insides of my eyelids"
Irises quotes
Irises
19 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
19 quotes
Aesop Rock
Rapper
Honore de Balzac
Novelist
"Constancy will always be the genius of love, the indication of that strength which constitutes the poet. A man should possess all women in his wife, like those squalid poetasters of the seventeenth century who made fair Irises and dazzling Chloes of their lowly Manons."
Pablo Neruda
Poet, Diplomat
"Donde termina el arco iris, en tu alma o en el horizonte? Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon?"
Ray Bradbury
Author
"The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him."
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