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Angry men and furious machines
Swarm from the little blue of the horizon
To the great blue of the middle height.
(Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "Dutch Graves in Bucks County.")
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Blue skies smiling at me
Nothing but blue skies do I see.
(Irving Berlin (1888-1989), U.S. songwriter. "Blue Skies," Betsy, Irving Berlin Music Corp. (1927).
Music composed by Ralph Rainger (1900-1942).)
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though it flickers or
shrinks to a
blue bead on the wick,
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Prayer.")
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filing
endlessly through his blue
blinking eyes into
the world within him
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A March.")
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Thou blossom bright with autumn dew,
And colored with the heaven's own blue,
(William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), U.S. poet. To the Fringed Gentian (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Betwixt the black fronts long-withdrawn
A light-blue lane of early dawn,
(Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892), British poet. In Memoriam A. H. H. (Fr. CXIX, l. 6-7). . .
Tennyson; a Selected Edition. Christopher Ricks, ed. (1989) University of California Press.)
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A meagre, blue-nailed, phthisic hand ...
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar.")
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Lilacs,
False blue,
White,
Purple,
Colour of lilac,
(Amy Lowell (1874-1925), U.S. poet. Lilacs (l. 1-5). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press.)
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Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn,
(Mother Goose (fl. 17th-18th century. Little Boy Blue (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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The blue we bathe in is the blue we breathe. The blue we breathe, I fear, is what we want from life and only find in fiction. For the voyeur, fiction is what's called going all the way.
(William Gass (b. 1924), U.S. fictionist, essayist, philosopher. On Being Blue: A Philosophical Inquiry, ch. 4, p. 85.)
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