Henry James
Author
"Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine."
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Violet
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?"
William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more."
John Keats
Poet
"That queen of secrecy, the violet."
Barbara Johnson
Author
"Violets are God's apology for February."
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"Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal."
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"Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that they can be happy, generous, and good."
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"We say This changes and that changes. Thus the constant Violets, doves, girls, bees and hyacinths Are inconstant objects of inconstant cause In a universe of inconstancy."
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"There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet."
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"The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink."
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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."
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"Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)"
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